Creative Equity Toolkit

What do terms like systemic racism, microaggression and white fragility mean?

A glossary for anti-racism, including 'systemic racism', 'structural racism', 'institutional racism', 'white privilege', 'white fragility', 'microagressions' and 'white-splaining'.

'white fragility supports racism because it shifts the power dynamic in an insidious way...All of a sudden, the conversation becomes less about what the person of color experienced, but the white person's reaction, and, in so doing, is an attempt to undercut the validity of the person of color's experience.'

What I do as a sensitivity reader

A discussion of the work of a sensitivity reader, and the way it fits into the broader context of editing for accuracy.

'For example, I might explain that putting a space in ‘Chinese Australian’ and ‘trans man’ helps affirm those identities as part, not whole, of someone’s character, compared to ‘Chinese-Australian’ and ‘transman’. I might notice that the portrayal of a cultural activity is off: Australians talk about going ‘to the footy’ but not ‘to the ball game’.

What is Privilege?

Video on a group of people from different backgrounds undertaking the privilege walk exercise.