The Imposters Club - S2 Ep8

The Imposters Club
Season 2 Episode 8: Notes on white privilege, anti-racism work and getting started

In this episode, Sinéad and Melissa discuss what it means to have white privilege, and the anti-racism work we need to do to create a truly equitable society. Following the murder of George Floyd, there has been a huge surge in support for the Black Lives Matter movement around the world. This episode helps our white listeners to harness that energy, understand how we have (sometimes unwittingly) benefited from systemic racism, and helps you get started on your journey of allyship.

We’d love to hear your stories of feeling like an imposter, so email us at theimpostersclub@gmail.com and each episode we’ll be sharing some on the podcast.

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Show notes

Sign:

Justice for Belly Mujinga

Suspend future sales of tear gas and other crowd control equipment to the USA

Teach Britain’s colonial past as part of the UK’s compulsory curriculum

Introduce Mandatory Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting

Read:

Cheryl I. Harris ‘Whiteness as Property’ Harvard Law Review, 1993

Kimberlé Crenshaw, ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’, University of Chicago Legal Forum’, 1989

Kojo Koram, ‘Systemic racism and police brutality are British problems too’, Guardian, 2020

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot