Creative Equity Toolkit

30+ Ways Asians Perpetuate Anti-Black Racism Everyday

Article listing actions specifically for the Asian community.

'In doing DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) work, I’ve found it useful to actually name the detailed and insidious ways we all participate in oppressing each other.

Best Practice in the Visual Arts from a First Nations Perspective: Clothilde Bullen

Clothilde (Clo) is a Wardandi (Nyoongar) and Badimaya (Yamatji) woman and Senior Curator and Head of First Nations programs and initiatives at the Art Gallery of WA.

'I can’t decide for another mob what their idea of sovereignty is, or of where their cultural material should go or how they wish to be represented. So I too, have to respect those principles of that group being self-determining and autonomous. '

Black Face

Overview of the history and contemporary expression of black face from the UK and the US.

'Popular contemporary ways of displaying blackface include: darkening your skin and especially your face; wearing clothes that you assume all black people wear and in a fashion that is mocking (think ‘ghetto’ or ‘thug’); throwing up obscure gang signs, or what you assume are gang signs, in order to ‘act black’; and depicting blackness in all its complexities as a caricature.'

CALD: Why some say this label is failing Australians

Discussion of the CALD label (culturally and linguistically diverse) used in Australia (like BAME: Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) which seek to to bundle disparate people together just because they are different to the majority identity. The Diversity Council of Australia is trialing a new acronym: CARM (culturally and racially marginalised) to reflect the experience of being raciliased.

"the CALD acronym is hopelessly inadequate to assist organisations because it doesn't mention race at all.'

Check Our Biases to Wreck Our Biases

Second in a New York Times series on implicit bias, looking at how implicit bias works in selection situations and how some people are auditing their own implicit biases.

Cracking the Codes: Power Analysis

An analysis of systemic inequality, putting bias in the context of wider history, identities, structures and institutions.

'The current conversation is not only shallow, but actually harmful. We continue to primarily focus on individuals, when institutional and structural inequities are the bigger problem.'