Creative Equity Toolkit

Indigenous Films Conference Manifesto Gouvdageaidnu

The Sami Film Institute Indigenous Films Conference provides a clear and simple manifesto on producing and distributing indigenous film content to ensure that they tell their own stories. This done through partnerships, a film distribution model, training and a conference.

Internet Pile-Ons Are No Substitute for Real Change

A look at the difference between calling out problematic comments on social media and making lasting change.

'More insidious, however, is the palpable “look at me being a good ally” performative aspect that emerges, particularly when the target of the pile-on is a known problematic figure and frequent scapegoat. This is when twitter, in particular, can transform into a virtual gym for “white allies” to flex their solid(arity) muscles.'

Intro to Story-based Strategy

A guide to a participatory approach that links movement building with narrative power analysis towards social change storytelling. Features story elements; breaking-down power for goals, audiences, targets and constituencies; understanding your audience; points of intervention; action logic; cracks and cross-checking.

It's time for Australia to boycott brown-face

Tongan Australian writer Winnie Dunn reviews the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 'Jonah from Tonga', about a fictional Pasifika boy played by a white man in brown-face, Chris Lilley.

'...the question is not about whether white people are entitled to have an opinion on this issue, but rather, who is in a greater position to assess whether this issue is a problem – the group committing the act or the group affected by it?'