Erfan Daliri
Cart 0
Cart 0
Erfan Daliri
SOCIAL CHANGE CONSULTANT
 
AntiRacism Erfan Daliri

RESOURCES

 

Read

For students and educators alike we’ve created a list of good books, great articles, and helpful websites with knowledge on how we can build a world that is free of discrimination, prejudice and racism.

Watch

Some of our favourite short videos, TED Talks and lectures by inspirational and thought-leading individuals on topics of race unity, cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Follow

This is our ‘People to Follow’ list with links to their socials and websites. Whether you’re after daily insta inspirations or weekly blog posts, this is our evolving list of changemaking contributors.

Anti-Racism Promo Material (6).png

READ

Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 12.36.51 pm.png
 

MUST READS

 
 
 

How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. 

I'm Still Here - Austin Channing Brown

An account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America that looks at how middle-class, evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy.

 
 

So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape, from privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement. Offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide

Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

Insightful, incendiary and ultimately hopeful, Hood Feminism is both an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux and also clear-eyed assessment of how to save it. The fight against racism is a feminist issue. How can feminists stand in solidarity without addressing these issues?

 
11.png

READING LIST

 
Featured
White Fragility - Robin Di Angelo
White Fragility - Robin Di Angelo

Anti-racism educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people'. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviours including argumentation and silence.

Read More…

Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge has transformed the conversation both in Britain and around the world. Examining everything from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, from whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge, and counter racism.

Read More…

White Tears/Brown Scars - Ruby Hamad
White Tears/Brown Scars - Ruby Hamad

What happens when racism and sexism collide? Ruby Hamad provides some confronting answers. White Tears/Brown Scars blows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the dealings between women of colour and white women.

Read More…

When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele

From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a powerful poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Khan-Cullors's story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love.

Read More…

The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward
The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward

In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contemporary racism and race, including Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Young, Claudia Rankine, and Honoree Jeffers. “An absolutely indispensable anthology”

Read More…

Me and White Supremacy
Me and White Supremacy

Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #MeAndWhiteSupremacy. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviours, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

Read More…

Breathe: A Letter To My Sons
Breathe: A Letter To My Sons

Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable.

Read More…

Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates' attempt to answer questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares the story of his own awakening to the truth about history and race through a series of revelatory experiences- immersion in nationalist mythology as a child; engagement with history, poetry and love at Howard University; travels to Civil War battlefields and the South Side of Chicago; and pilgrimages to the homes of mothers whose children's lives have been taken as American plunder.

Read More…

 
Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 12.31.49 pm.png

BLOG POSTS

 
Featured
Anti-Racism is not just being “against” racism
Communication for Change, Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter
Anti-Racism is not just being “against” racism
Communication for Change, Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter

Anti-racism is about resolving our personal pain and grief, or our shame and guilt, and actually getting on with the job of recognising the systems, structures and policies that have constructed and reinforced arbitrary racial boundaries over 500 years, and to then begin intelligently envisaging a way to rebalance and redesign our world through a systems-thinking approach to social and organisational change.

Read More →
Communication for Change, Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter
The Colonialist Subtext of the word "Wilderness"
Communication for Change, Climate Change, Anti-Racism
The Colonialist Subtext of the word "Wilderness"
Communication for Change, Climate Change, Anti-Racism

As the global movement for climate action gains momentum and environmentalist sentiment enters the public arena, it’s time to check the language of the movement to ensure we are a) being as effective as possible and b) not causing further harm in our advocacy, our activism and our actions.

Read More →
Communication for Change, Climate Change, Anti-Racism
Let’s Talk About How Anti-Racism Benefits Everyone
Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter, Social Change
Let’s Talk About How Anti-Racism Benefits Everyone
Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter, Social Change

How do we end racism? How can we build a social movement that has momentum to see us achieve a world free of prejudice? Considering that colonialism, capitalism, the concentration of wealth and power, and even climate change, would not have happened without racism, it becomes clear that anti-racism training is not just for social justice advocates who want to address systemic racism, but for anyone who seeks to build a better world. So how do we build this powerful movement?

Read More →
Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter, Social Change
What's wrong with saying "I don't see colour"
Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter, Discourse Analysis
What's wrong with saying "I don't see colour"
Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter, Discourse Analysis

If you've ever heard someone say 'I don't see colour' and you're not quite sure why it might be a little bit racist, then this is for you.

Read More →
Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter, Discourse Analysis
 

WATCH

 
Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 12.36.51 pm.png
 

The Surprising Solution to Workplace Diversity

How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace

 
 
 

You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race i...

The Myth of Race, debunked in 3 minutes

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIGSubscribe to Origin of Everything! h...

The Origin of Race in the USA

 

How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Words on Racism

 

Coming to Terms With Racism’s Inertia

Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice

 

Briggs on Indigenous Disadvantage and Racism on Social Media

Aboriginal People Respond to “Australia Day”

 

We All Have Implicit Biases. So What Can We Do About It?

How To Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them.

 

50 Years of Racism - Why Silence Isn’t The Answer

Black Murder Is Normal

 

Racism Debate with Stan Grant

Dr Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility

 

I Grew Up in Poverty. Here’s Why I Recognise My White Privilege

Understanding My Privilege

 

Black Parents Explain How to Deal with the Police

How Can I Be Anti-Racist

 

Lessons from a Recovering Racist

What if White People Led the Charge to End Racism?

 

How Anti-Racism is a Treatment for the ‘Cancer’ of Racism

How Can We Win - Monopoly & Racism

 

Why “I’m Not Racist” is Only Half the Story

Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color

 

Q&A: Shareena Clanton says Indigenous people want to be "the author of our own destinies"

Australia is facing some hard truths on race, jobs, and the economy.

 

How You Gonna Reform A Cop?

Three Myths About Racism

 

People Guess Who’s White in a Group of Strangers

I’m Tired of Talking About Race

 

 
13.png
 

FOLLOW

 
Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 12.36.51 pm.png
 

Rachel Cargle

A public academic, writer, and lecturer, Rachel’s activist and academic work are rooted in providing intellectual discourse, tools, and resources that explore the intersection of race & womanhood. Her content encourages critical thinking and nurtures meaningful engagement with people all over the world.

INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK
WEBSITE
PATREON

Blair Imani

A critically-acclaimed historian, activist & advocate, Blair centres women and girls, global Black communities, and the LGBTQ community. She regularly posts educational content on her social media, including Learn O’Clock every Sunday, and Smarter in Seconds throughout the week.

INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK
WEBSITE
PATREON

 
 
 
Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi

One of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars, Ibram is the author of three #1 New York Times bestsellers including How to be an Anti-Racist, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You and Antiracist Baby. He’s also the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

WEBSITE
INSTAGRAM
TWITTER
FACEBOOK

layla f. saad

Layla F. Saad

An author, speaker & teacher on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation & social change, Layla is also the New York Times Bestselling Author of the ground-breaking book Me And White Supremacy, the host of Good Ancestor Podcast, and the founder of Good Ancestor Academy.

INSTAGRAM
WEBSITE
PODCAST
PATREON

 
 
 
Anita Heiss

Dr Anita Heiss

One of Australia’s most prolific and well known authors, Anita is also a poet, cultural activist and social commentator who’s work ranges from non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction and travel articles. She is a Lifetime Ambassador of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation of central NSW. Anita was a finalist in the 2012 Human Rights Awards and the 2013 Australian of the Year Awards. She is also currently a Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.

WEBSITE
TWITTER
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK

adam+goodes.jpg

Adam Goodes

Adam is one of the most accomplished AFL players to date. He is an Andyamathanha and Norungga man born in Wallaroo, and in 2014, he was named Australian of the Year in recognition of his community work, advocacy and campaign against racism. In the 2019 documentary The Australian Dream, Adam shares an insight into his life and career whilst exploring themes of race, identity and belonging in Australia today. He is also the founder of the GO Foundation and the Indigenous Defence Consortium (IDC).

INSTAGRAM

 
 
 
Martin+Luther+King+III

Martin Luther King III

The eldest son of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King III is an American human rights activist, community leader, author, and politician continuing his parents quest for equality and justice for all people. For over 20 years, he has been motivating audiences around the world with his insightful message of hope and responsibility. Mr. King's dedication to creating and implementing strategic nonviolent action to rid the world of social, political, and economic injustice has propelled him to the forefront as one of the nation's most ardent advocates for the poor, the oppressed, and the disillusioned.

WEBSITE
TWITTER

Dr Shola

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu

A political & women’s rights activist, Shola teaches intersectional feminism to female refugees and asylum seekers; scrutinizes government policies from a gender and diversity inclusion perspective; and co-organises women's marches and social campaigns. She is also a New York Attorney and Solicitor of England & Wales. She founded the Women in Leadership publication to drive positive change on topical issues that impact women globally; and established She@LawTalks to promote women & BAME leadership in the legal profession through universities and secondary schools.

WEBSITE
TWITTER
INSTAGRAM

 
 
 
Ijeoma+Oluo

Ijeoma Oluo

A writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller, Ijeoma is the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race and was the winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society. Oluo’s work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay.

WEBSITE
INSTAGRAM
PATREON

brittany+packnett+cunningham.jpg

Brittany Packnett Cunningham

An award-winning educator, organizer, writer, and leader, Brittany has become a sought-after voice in the work of social change and empowerment. She is an NBC News and MSNBC Contributor, a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and host of UNDISTRACTED, a news and justice podcast with an intersectional lens on the world.

WEBSITE
INSTAGRAM
TWITTER

 
 
 

Ruby Hamad

Journalist, author, and academic, Ruby is currently completing a PhD in media and post-colonial studies at UNSW. Her Guardian article, "How White Women Use Strategic Tears to Silence Women of Color", became a global flashpoint for discussions of white feminism and racism and inspired her debut book, White Tears/Brown Scars.

INSTAGRAM

reni+eddo+lodge.jpg

Reni Eddo-Lodge

A journalist and author, whose writing primarily focuses on feminism and exposing structural racism. In June 2020, her debut book, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (published in 2017), rose 155 places, making her the first black British woman to be No. 1 overall in the British book charts.

WEBSITE
TWITTER
PODCAST

 
 
 
vanessa+turnbull+roberts.jpg

Vanessa Turnbull Roberts

A proud Bundjalung woman, Vanessa is a storyteller, writer and activist. In 2019, she received the Australian Young People’s Human Rights medal, sharing the importance of abolishing the current system and demanding justice for Aboriginal deaths in custody and children in Out Of Home Care in her acceptance speech. She is currently completing her Law and Social work degree at UNSW.

INSTAGRAM
TWITTER

Lidia Thorpe

Lidia Thorpe

Greens Senator for Victoria and proud Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman, Lidia is a lifelong activist and fighter for human rights, social justice and the environment. In 2017, she became the first Aboriginal person elected to Victorian parliament, as the Greens MP for Northcote, and in September 2020, Lidia took her seat as Victoria's first Aboriginal Senator in the federal Parliament.

INSTAGRAM
TWITTER
FACEBOOK

 
 
Screen Shot 2020-12-17 at 12.31.49 pm.png

Want to learn how you can effectively contribute to
Racial Justice?

Specifically designed to build your Anti-Racism vocabulary, literacy and change-making capacity, Racial Justice 101 empowers participants from all over the world to confidently and effectively discuss & address racism in their communities and broader society.

If you’re passionate about making a positive impact in the world, then Racial Justice 101 should be a compulsory part of your learning journey.

NEXT INTAKE STARTS WEDNESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2021

Anti-Racism Promo Material (10).png
```