Creative Equity Toolkit

Living with the Lams: CBBC in race row over children's show

Coverage of the controversy when non-Chinese writers were employed to write the 'Living with the Lams' TV program for CBBC, although a Chinese script consultant had been hired. "Even if it's done with the best intentions, there's something slimy about claiming someone else's story for your own and deciding how to tell it."

Melbourne Fringe Festival cancels show after accusations of 'yellowface'

Coverage of the the Melbourne Fringe Festival's decision to pull a show titled 'Aisha the Aussie Geisha' after 70 artists signed a letter accusing the show of yellow face published in Liminal magazine.

'Reducing entire segments of humanity to punchlines is antithetical to the values of Melbourne Fringe, and harmful and insulting to Asian and Asian-Australian people,' the letter said.

Moving past stereotypes': Fresh calls for more diversity in the Australian arts

Maria Tran, director of The Subtractor tells SBS she made the film to challenge stereotypes '"Asians are always playing the stereotypes of gangstas, nerds, prostitutes - we want to move past those stereotypes and show people that we're not just an ethnicity."'

Moving the Race Conversation Forward

A two-part report that aims to reform the way people talk about race and racism in the USA. Outlines impediments to productive racial discourse, lessons from barrier-breaking interventions, considerations for selecting spokespersons and recommendations for framing expertise, skills-building and collaboration.