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“Why do you call me good?”: Talking about whiteness and responsibility

At the 2021 Britain Yearly Meeting Gathering, I gave a talk and workshop on behalf of Woodbrooke called '“Why do you call me good?”: Talking about whiteness and responsibility'. This video is now freely available to watch on the Woodbrooke YouTube channel, and I thought readers of my blog might appreciate it too.

Mark Russ Britain Yearly Meeting, whiteness Leave a comment December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 1 Minute

Decentering ourselves: Reflections on Britain Yearly Meeting Gathering 2021

marginalised. When the consumption and comfort of the wealthy is centred, then the world’s poor suffer on the periphery. When whiteness is centred, blackness becomes the ‘other’. When cisgender and gender conformity is centred, gender diversity is seen as ‘deviant’.

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