Creative Equity Toolkit

White Women doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture

An honest and generous article that unpacks how white supremacy culture can show up in organisations, homes, and thoughts, with a particular focus on tools for white women to combat unconscious bias in their behaviour in the American not-for-profit sector.

Why Amy Cooper’s Use of ‘African-American’ Stung

Commentary on an incident in New York when white woman Amy Cooper called the police on African American Christian Cooper, claiming he was threatening her life, though her employer requires employees to take anti-bias training every year.

'there has been little rigorous evaluation of the training strategies deployed to combat it, and as a result we simply don’t know enough about what makes a difference. “It often has the feeling of being a one-and-done kind of thing: ‘We did it'."

Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

The blog post that kick-started the award-winning book of the same name.

'I can’t talk to white people about race anymore because of the consequential denials, awkward cartwheels and mental acrobatics that they display when this is brought to their attention.'

Why Open Letters Have Become Many Activists’ Tool of Choice for Exposing Racism at Museums

In the wake of the George Floyd protests, art workers across the nation have been writing open letters to advocate for change at museums. This article explores the power of open letters as a tool to challenge systemic racism.