In July 2011, Simone Bresi-Ando, founder of I’mPOSSIBLE was honoured when CNN international approached her to talk about her experience as a Black British female. Zena Tuitt, Kehinde Olarinmoye and Desiree Banugo joined Simone to share their journeys as Black British women and were asked a range of questions during a two hour interview about their perception [...]
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Reversing the invisibility of British women of colour courtesy of CNN
Posted by admin on October 28th, 2011
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No Comments »What’s in a name?
Posted by admin on July 25th, 2011
Can racial and sexual slurs be reclaimed to empower the groups they were created to harm? By Annie Rockson By looking at those in power; albeit business or politics, women and ethnic minorities are not at levels within these spheres which are representative of their contribution and numbers in society. With the ‘isms’ (racism [...]
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Posted by admin on May 10th, 2011
Today’s topics are: Identity: is it wrong for mixed ethnicity people to identify themselves as one race rather than the other? http://bit.ly/mH1R9X If women dress ‘provocatively’, should they expect to be sexually harassed? http://bit.ly/mtQfR3 Twitter: freedom of speech tool or dangerous unregulated global forum? http://bbc.in/irFSfE Are super injunctions only there to protect men? http://bit.ly/mmmXyK [...]
Posted in #TalkingTuesdays Tags: Ann Dunham, Black, black people, court, courts, freedom, freedom of speech, harassment, identity, inequality, injunction, injunctions, Jemima Khan, legal, legal action, legal system, mixed race, obama, race, racism, sexism, sexual, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, super, super injunction, super injunctions, twitter, women No Comments »