Creative Equity Toolkit

101 Links to Black Writers and Voices

This list of Indigenous authored work was created with the intention to ensure First Nations voices are cited and promoted on social media in discussions of racism and privilege. It is a non-hierarchical library of links to commentary on race and colonialism in Australia which highlights significant First Nations thought leaders and intellectuals.

Chapter excerpt from The Relationship is the Project

A good primer on "community-engaged practice" and ways to think about working with people in communities and building relationships without gatekeeping.

This book is published in Australia and this chapter excerpt has be posted by the UK based organisation Co-Creating Change

Curator Walkthrough: WILAM BIIK

WILAM BIIK is the second exhibition to be presented as part of Yalingwa, a Victorian Government initiative, in partnership with Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and TarraWarra Museum of Art, designed to support the development of outstanding contemporary Indigenous art and curatorial practice.

David Olusoga: his Edinburgh television festival speech in full

In his *** lecture, *** presents his thesis that a generation of black and brown talent has been lost to the British media because media management did not support or invest in their careers.

'The recipients of that sort of investment are those whom managers and indie bosses can envisage one day doing their jobs. And in my experience those selected for such elevation tend to be carbon copies of the managers who champion their careers.'

First Nations First — Best Practices for Creating with Community: Genevieve Grieves

Worimi educator and storyteller Genevieve Grieves co-created storytelling and production company GARUWA with her brother Kieran Satour.

'We’re interested in shifting that dynamic by exploring new models of co-creating that bring the storyteller — the person whose story we are sharing — to the fore, giving them complete control over how their story’s represented… the person who would normally be the director takes the role of producer and the person whose story is being told is the director.'

“For All of Us”: An Interview with Philly-based Cultural Organizer Marángeli Mejía-Rabell

An interview with Marángeli Mejía-Rabell, the cultural organizer and festival director for the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival and founder of AFROTAINO. She discusses her work and how it bridges the divide between Puerto Rico and Philadelphia, Latinx and Latin America. One of her early mentors was a substantial influence and shaped her approach; she says “at the center of everything he did was the community.”