Creative Equity Toolkit

Ten ways employers can authentically include Indigenous Australians

This article summarises the results of the first large-scale survey of the experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at work, and provides ten clear solutions to create a more inclusive workforce.

The Academy Was Made for White Men: Here’s How Taika Waititi Made a Difference

An article commenting on the representation of First Nations and People of Colour at the 2020 Academy Awards. Reflects on the significance and politics of Taika Waititi’s land acknowledgement, his award dedication to Indigenous Youth, and the success of Bong Joon Ho.

The Alternative Reading List Project

A selection of reading lists designed to promote diversity across curricula and offer perspectives from marginalised or excluded topics in mainstream academia. Includes blogs, books, novels, poems, and articles covering colonialism/ post-colonialism, race and ethnicity, music, philosophy, among others.

The Anti-racism Toolkit

Toolkit to address institutional racism, using the University of Leeds as a case study.

'The toolkit is structured around the process of constructing an anti-racist action plan for your institution.'

The arts can help us celebrate diversity but must avoid tokenism

An article that unpacks how well-intentioned diversity initiatives could run the risk of moving further away from the goals and dignity of the individuals that it seeks to benefit.

It also provides recommendations on how to be thoughtful about collaborating with communities and to enter a meaningful and hopefully transformative change for the better.

The arts were supposed to champion diversity. What went wrong?

Nwonka argues that a 'culture of schemes' dominates diversity policy in UK arts that prioritises potential financial gains for arts organisations over social equity.

'First, it employs strategic language to conceal the pathological inequality and exclusionary labour processes at the sector’s heart. Second, through narratives like “diversity is good for business”, all political meaning is extracted from diversity, while redirecting the burden of change on to ethnic minorities themselves.'