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#11 - Vocal about #BrusselsSoWhite Vocal about it
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- Gesellschaft und Kultur
In this episode we're in conversation with the brilliant Sarah Chandler - Senior Policy advisor for the European Network Against Racism. In the context of the upcoming European Elections, we talk ab out the dramatic lack of People of color in the European Institutions, how to decolonise #BrusselsSoWhite and how to practice serious self-care when racism is your daily job.
Do read Sarah’s insightful piece on the Guardian about EU’s race problem => bit.ly/2VLtPVX
***Here are the inspiring and talend Women of COlor we calebrate in this epsisode***
-Melissa Rodrigues, Artist and talented sister from cabo-verdian descent living in Porto - Portugal
She’s a graduate of Anthropology and studied contemporary dance and Performing Arts.
Melissa takes an active role in anti-racist activism, and intersectional feminist campaigns such as “Chá das Pretas”. Melissa has a performance schedule on May 25th at the Feminist Festival of Lisbon – head there if you’re around! bit.ly/2VL6u6P
-Juliana Santos Wahlgren, Senior Advocacy Officer at ENAR. Intersectional Feminst, anti-racist and Anti-Bolsonaro activist, Juliana cares and acts about supporting oppressed communities in Brussels and beyond.
-Co-editors of the amazing essay collection "To exist is to resist - Black feminism in Europe"
1) Akwugo Emejulo, professor at the department of sociology at Warwick university who worked in grassroots community organizing before academia. One of her current research projects "Women of Colour Resist" examines how women of color organise and mobilise in illiberal Europe. follow her on Twitter: @AkwugoEmejulu
2) Francesca Sobande, a doctor at Cardiff university. At the core of her academic focus is identity, ideology and intersecting inequalities. She approaches her work from a black feminist positioning.
In this episode we're in conversation with the brilliant Sarah Chandler - Senior Policy advisor for the European Network Against Racism. In the context of the upcoming European Elections, we talk ab out the dramatic lack of People of color in the European Institutions, how to decolonise #BrusselsSoWhite and how to practice serious self-care when racism is your daily job.
Do read Sarah’s insightful piece on the Guardian about EU’s race problem => bit.ly/2VLtPVX
***Here are the inspiring and talend Women of COlor we calebrate in this epsisode***
-Melissa Rodrigues, Artist and talented sister from cabo-verdian descent living in Porto - Portugal
She’s a graduate of Anthropology and studied contemporary dance and Performing Arts.
Melissa takes an active role in anti-racist activism, and intersectional feminist campaigns such as “Chá das Pretas”. Melissa has a performance schedule on May 25th at the Feminist Festival of Lisbon – head there if you’re around! bit.ly/2VL6u6P
-Juliana Santos Wahlgren, Senior Advocacy Officer at ENAR. Intersectional Feminst, anti-racist and Anti-Bolsonaro activist, Juliana cares and acts about supporting oppressed communities in Brussels and beyond.
-Co-editors of the amazing essay collection "To exist is to resist - Black feminism in Europe"
1) Akwugo Emejulo, professor at the department of sociology at Warwick university who worked in grassroots community organizing before academia. One of her current research projects "Women of Colour Resist" examines how women of color organise and mobilise in illiberal Europe. follow her on Twitter: @AkwugoEmejulu
2) Francesca Sobande, a doctor at Cardiff university. At the core of her academic focus is identity, ideology and intersecting inequalities. She approaches her work from a black feminist positioning.
44 Min.