Are you a white scholar who aspires to be anti-racist?

Your job is to start noticing FIRST
To complain FIRST
To galvanise other people with *the same* or similar privileges to support your work FIRST

If you only notice when you are told or shown, you aren’t doing your work.

This includes:
- book contracts
- appointments
- peer review
- checking on promotions
- accessing language in meetings
- checking the reading matter in your department (not your teaching)
- not sharing anecdotes about your work with racially marginalised colleagues

If you need praise or validation, you aren’t doing the work.

If you think this work includes you as a public conduit for racially marginalised academics, you are actively part of the problem.

“Sharing your platform” is not equivalent to reshaping the environment in private.