The LIDN Weekly Roundup #67
One of the most exciting months in the UK is here! As we celebrate Black History Month in all its beauty and glory, let’s have a look at inspiring work, people and ideas who have contributed to celebrating Black culture as well as those who have adopted a critical approach to imagine an anti-racist future.
Stories of Black Leadership II: Breaking Barriers — Online Exhibition
Black Cultural Archives have launched their recent exhibition online on ‘the journeys of pioneering Black British women who have overcome adversity to take their rightful seat at the table.’
Doing Diversity Differently
Takwiyo Danso questions the ‘white gaze’ in international development and starts creating a future centred on black femininity and decolonisation.
Olivette Otele: ‘Discussions of cancel culture are very middle class. Activists just survive and support each other’
Olivette Otele, UK’s first female black history professor, talks about her recent book ‘African Europeans: An Untold Story’, the difference between grassroots communities who organise Black Lives Matter and its mainstream media representations, how Britain is still haunted by anxieties about the end of slavery.
Does international development still have a problem with racism?
We’re waiting for the time to come when this question will get old already. Unfortunately, that time still hasn’t arrived. New answers, discussions and approaches to it are helpful to take more action while we wait.
How to go beyond the representation of Africa as ‘one huge begging bowl’ in international development projects and campaigns? Nikki van der Gaag questions race, Global North-South power dynamics and justice.
Anthems — Podcast series
Listen to beautiful forms of self-expression in this great podcast series Anthems, prepared by Broccoli Content who breaks through industry barriers by featuring minority talent in front and behind the mic. The latest in the series is by Princess K who is an 11 year old dancer, actress, speaker and confidence advocate. Her words have just given me inspiration for a lifetime.
By Alara Adali / @alara_adali / alara.adali21@gmail.com
