What We’ve Been Up To On 22nd July DDU is hosting a public discussion online entitled Is the UK systemically racist?, on the Runnymede Trust’s report submitted this week to the International Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and the recent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) ‘Sewell report’. Taking part will […]
Newsletter 2021-06-25: Brighton petition / Education Committee verdict / Royal Academy apology / Trans athletes vs PoC / Rufo Fisks WaPo / Oxford students invite in censors
What We’ve Been Up To The petition Don’t Divide Us supporter Adrian Hart launched demanding democratic scrutiny of Brighton and Hove City Council’s plan to adopt CRT in schools has taken off and has over 2,000 signatures. (See last week’s newsletter and News Nuggets.) It has also been covered in The Brighton Argus by Sarah […]
Newsletter 2021-06-18: Incurable whiteness / Bad knees / Maya Forstater / Not Oxfem / Rhodes strike / Kids and privilege / Overt flags / Adichie’s essay / Loury on culture
What We’ve Been Up To The Academics Group recently held a discussion on the concept of ‘microaggressions’, which was introduced by Carole Sherwood. The theme had been in the news in the context of the University of Cambridge, where some academics had pushed back against the imposition of guidance and a reporting tool. Among the […]
Statues And Ghosts
In this personal and poignant essay, Marie Kawthar Daouda writes evocatively why, having come from a land without statues, she loves Oxford University: I come from a country with no statues. It is not that it never had statues. It must have had, not that long ago, statues of French officials; of which only one […]