I would always be cautious about the need to be formulaic with anti-racism or de-colonial work, in order for people to 'work with it'.

They are messy processes and needs to be understood as such, otherwise we risk maneuvering around structures & not addressing them.

1/5

It's hard, but we CAN begin this work within the current systemic and structural constraints we have without seeking to be legitimized by those very structures we are trying to dismantle.

2/5

Also, although we know that incentives can be a motivating factor & 'bring people in', there is little evidence to indicate that certificates of acknowledgement or charter mark 'badges' translate into any meaningful structural or systemic change...

3/5

... rather it is a corporate tool used to enable organizations to 'perform' anti-racism, without living it.

When we only see change through a shift in data, we are using the Master's tools to repaint the house not dismantle it.

4/5

Listen to the words of bell hooks:

"Knowledge was suddenly about information only. It had no relation to how one lived, behaved. It was no longer connected to antiracist struggle."

— bell hooks

5/5