My new curated collection on "Racism in the aid industry & #globaldev" brings together many of the recent excellent articles, op-eds & commentary on how to discuss, think about, become #AntiRacistInAid; I'm also including them as a thread

http://aidnography.blogspot.com/2020/06/racism-aid-industry-development-curated-collection.html
Resource pack: Educate yourself on racism and #BlackLivesMatter (50 Shades of Aid collective) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ctkTGrcviCYHwDWxY-0m6GXOpW_Xh7f9spDJ8uYViJM/edit?fbclid=IwAR2_qzvC_1YRwwULNGxGfgYqPHwNVdNKenbwpsaVEyPJajD9gKPxrExycdI#heading=h.4oj036em5p72
Resource pack: Educate yourself on racism and #Black Lives Matter

Resource pack: Educate yourself on racism and #BlackLivesMatter Please feel free to add more resources to the document or please email [email protected] if you are unable to. We are...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ctkTGrcviCYHwDWxY-0m6GXOpW_Xh7f9spDJ8uYViJM/edit?fbclid=IwAR2_qzvC_1YRwwULNGxGfgYqPHwNVdNKenbwpsaVEyPJajD9gKPxrExycdI#heading=h.4oj036em5p72
Degan Ali on the systemic racism impacting humanitarian responses ( @DeganAli) https://www.devex.com/news/q-a-degan-ali-on-the-systemic-racism-impacting-humanitarian-responses-95083
Q&A: Degan Ali on the systemic racism impacting humanitarian responses

Adeso Executive Director Degan Ali says the localization agenda is being prevented by "racism that operates in the humanitarian system."

https://www.devex.com/news/q-a-degan-ali-on-the-systemic-racism-impacting-humanitarian-responses-95083
How White People Conquered the Non-Profit Industry (Anastasia Reesa Tomkin) https://medium.com/an-injustice/how-white-people-conquered-the-non-profit-industry-c1221cd93a83
How White People Conquered the Non-Profit Industry

And why they won’t be going anywhere, anytime soon

https://medium.com/an-injustice/how-white-people-conquered-the-non-profit-industry-c1221cd93a83
Aid workers: It’s time to practise what you preach ( @ThandieMwape) https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2020/06/08/aid-work-black-lives-matter-racism-international-humanitarian-system
You may find this uncomfortable and noisy

#BlackLivesMatter stirs up reflections on a career in the aid business.

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2020/06/08/aid-work-black-lives-matter-racism-international-humanitarian-system
Dismantling White Supremacy in the Humanitarian/Development Sector: A Working Document (Nadine El-Nabli & Anna Myers)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FVSNNIdjLNWPI0b-BwpmNmpzfe-hSyT3jmQYL5HeYSk/mobilebasic
Doing good and being racist ( @corinnelgray) https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2020/06/15/United-Nations-racism-black-lives-matter
Doing good and being racist

The UN boss fumbled a response to #BlackLivesMatter. I know why.

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2020/06/15/United-Nations-racism-black-lives-matter
Academic bonus: The elephant in the room: racism in representations, relationships and rituals (Emma Crewe & Priyanthi Fernando) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1191/1464993406ps126oa?casa_token=EpQZajA9QesAAAAA%3AB56NoLAC3B341068lcURY0iyBMgkATMtcqNhntkvMSSUf5GboHXUclZAq9_4UNYtxdSeQDUXl7F3&journalCode=pdja
The elephant in the room: racism in representations, relationships and rituals - Emma Crewe,...

Racism touches many of the relationships created by the international development industry, but has been largely ignored by policy and academic studies. Like it...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1191/1464993406ps126oa?casa_token=EpQZajA9QesAAAAA%3AB56NoLAC3B341068lcURY0iyBMgkATMtcqNhntkvMSSUf5GboHXUclZAq9_4UNYtxdSeQDUXl7F3&journalCode=pdja
Secret aid worker: there is still racism within humanitarian work (from 2015) https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/aug/18/secret-aid-worker-racism-humanitarian-work
Secret aid worker: there is still racism within humanitarian work

An aid worker in Africa talks about racial divisions within the ranks of humanitarian workers

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/aug/18/secret-aid-worker-racism-humanitarian-work
A Statement of Solidarity from the Leadership of Save the Children UK ( @savechildrenuk) https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2020/blm-solidarity-statement-charity-leadership-team
A Statement of Solidarity | Save the Children UK

Racial discrimination is a violation of child rights. We have a duty & a responsibility to defend all children everywhere against discrimination based on race & gender.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2020/blm-solidarity-statement-charity-leadership-team
Time to dismantle racism in international development ( @LenaBheeroo, @leilabilling, Eliza-Helen Ampomah, Pontso Mafethe & @AlLallyFrancis) https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2020/06/time-to-dismantle-racism-in-international-development
Time to dismantle racism in international development

This public moment on Black Lives Matter is our chance to interrogate and dismantle racism and anti-blackness in international development.

https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2020/06/time-to-dismantle-racism-in-international-development
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