Creative Equity Toolkit

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When Calling Out Makes Sense

Article looking at calling in and calling out, the legitimacy of rage in the face of oppression and the role of power in call out culture. The article responds to an earlier viral article by Ahmad promoting call ins as an alternative to call outs.

'When we insist that all of these conversations must remain in the private sphere, we are insisting that accountability is always a private matter. The history of our movements very clearly shows the opposite is often the case.'

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  • 4 minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: USA

  • Author: Asam Ahmad

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While the US debate heats up, why won’t the UK even talk about reparations for slavery?

A look at the reparations debate in Britain:

'...politicians dismiss the significance of the slave trade without so much of a wave of the hand, or repeat the tired inaccuracy that it all happened far too long ago to worry about now. This despite the claims of Brexit supporters that the Commonwealth might play a major part in our international trade strategy after we leave the European Union.'

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  • 5 minute
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  • Published: 2019
    Country: UK

  • Author: Kuba Shand-Baptiste, Independent

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A screenshot of the Conversation Article with the text' white, female and high rates of mental illness, new diversity research offers a snapshot of the publishing industry' that is overlaid over a photo of stacks of books and someone climbing a stack of books, but they are only visible from the thighs down. So you only really see the legs.

White, female, and high rates of mental illness: Australian publishing industry diversity survey

This article provides a snapshot summary of a recent survey done on the Australian publishing industry, following similar studies in the UK and USA.

Published on 31 August 2022, and featuring survey data from 989 respondents, the report contains demographic data on the makeup of the Australian publishing workforce. At time of publication, the industry has much work to do in reflecting Australia’s cultural and social diversity in its workforce.

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  • 15 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Beth Driscoll, Susannah Bowen, The University of Melbourne, Australian Publishers Association

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White Fragility

The 2011 article in which Robin DiAngelo introduces her theory which became her best-selling book.

'White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.'

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  • 30 minute
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  • Published: 2011
    Country: USA

  • Author: Robin DiAngelo, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy

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White people say they want to be an ally to Black people. But are they ready for sacrifice?

Article exploring the cost to well-meaning white people of true racial equity, and whether they would are willing to pay it.

'Neither the sudden compulsion toward acts of kindness, nor a genuine concern for the experiences of people of color, constitute true allyship...Real allyship enacted by White Americans, with a clear objective to make equitable the lived experiences of individuals across racial lines, means a willingness to lose things.'

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  • 6 minute
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  • Published: 2020
    Country: USA

  • Author: Kelsey Smoot, The Guardian

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Whose life is it anyway? Novelists have their say on cultural appropriation

Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Aminatta Forna and others on writing outside their experience.

Ask 'Did I find it easier to write about this because I filtered it through a white gaze and thus made it palatable for a largely white publishing industry? And most of all, and this bears repeating, don’t get defensive. Because you may be making a larger conversation about marginalised communities, and their ability to tell their own stories in their own voices, all about yourself.' ~ Nikesh Shukla

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  • 22 minute
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  • Published: 2016
    Country: UK

  • Author: The Guardian, Hari Kunzru, Aminatta Forna, Chris Cleave, AL Kennedy, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Naomi Alderman, Philip Hensher, Maggie Gee, Nikesh Shukla