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Activism, Society and Green related issues > a real mix of finds and whatever connects *NB: ALL TEXT FROM THE ORIGINAL SITES*

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How racism operates in clinical work, supervision and our institutions is explored, and whilst it can seem an intractable problem, proposals are given for ways forward. This book will be of great importance to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers and all those with an interest in the role of white privilege on mental health. (The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective | Routledge)

See also “The baby who is born pink learns to become white” | Tavistock and Portman and Tavistock Policy Seminar: Whiteness – A problem for our time | YouTube

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Taking inspiration from the deep well of anti-racist and social activist writers such as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Angela Davis, each chapter offers tips on how to learn, reflect and act in a society where we are told we are powerless. (Radical Justice: Building the World We Need)

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We are wired to avoid our emotions, not mindfully embrace them. (The Key Skill We Rarely Learn: How to Feel Your Feelings | Psychology Today)

See also Emotion Regulation | Psychology Today

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The Feelings Wheel is a powerful visual tool shaped like a wheel, typically divided into several sections to help you better identify and understand your emotions. It categorizes emotions into different levels, starting with core emotions at the center and branching out to more nuanced feelings on the periphery. (How are you feeling today? | FeelingsWheel)

See also The Feelings Wheel: unlock the power of your emotions | Calm and The Feelings Wheel: A Visual Tool for Identifying Emotions | Neurodivergent Insights

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How to Turn Down the Tension in a Conversation

Research finds that if our language shows someone we're open to their perspective, they are more likely to be open to ours.

Conversational receptiveness is using language to show your counterpart that you are actively engaged with their point of view. (How to Turn Down the Tension in a Conversation | Greater Good Magazine Berkley)

See also To have better disagreements, change your words – here are 4 ways to make your counterpart feel heard and keep the conversation going | The Conversation

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I feel X when Y happens because I need Z. (Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg spent 40 years studying communication in war zones, prisons, schools in crisis and families on the edge of collapse | soulmindhub Instagram)

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Anthems of dissent and opposition have featured often in The Life of a Song series (via When Woody Guthrie, Sinéad O’Connor and others took a stand — the stories behind 22 protest songs)

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...low SEB [socio-economic background] graduates are 32% less likely to receive a job offer than those from more wealthy backgrounds. Black applicants and Asian applicants are 45% and 29% respectively less likely to receive an offer than white applicants. (via UK employers less likely to recruit disadvantaged ethnic minority graduates | UCL)

For more info see Inequalities in access to elite occupations | Nuffield Foundation

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Because Western renderings of the continent (even contemporary ones) have been mired in condescension, benevolent or otherwise, the African artist enters a distorted frame. The psychic toll of challenging historically racist depictions—those that originated during colonial eras but still proliferate now—disturbs the work of many photographers from the continent. (via A Brilliant Travelogue That Presents Africa Through a New Lens | The Atlantic)

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For the artist, skinhead culture’s roots, when white and British Jamaican kids danced side by side to ska and reggae, and the movement’s later infamous tilt to the far right, make it “the perfect metaphor for talking about West Indian and white working-class culture – my culture”. (Artist Rene Matić: ‘This story is about what, if anything, saves us’ | The Guardian)

See also Rene Matić – 'Born British, die British' | Turner Prize 2025 | Tate | YouTube and ORDINARY MIRACLES. A Conversation with Rene Matić | Flash Art.

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There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not come from long hours alone. It comes from paying attention. (...) people who entered the work because they love something outside themselves. A species. A place. A living world that felt worth protecting. That love is not a weakness. It is the fuel. And lately, it has become a source of pain. (A profession built on hope, strained by loss | MONGABAY)

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PFI is a voluntary and independent Palestinian non-profit organization established in 2019. The PFI was born from a shared desire among active Palestinian-identified film professionals to create an inclusive body with the mission of developing, promoting, and preserving Palestine’s cinema, and to empower the film industry in Palestine and for Palestinians around the world. (via Palestine Film Institute)

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The person with the widest window of tolerance becomes the load-bearing wall of a structure that was never designed to be transformed. The one who can hold the most becomes the one who holds everything. Not because they are respected. Not because the group has chosen them consciously for this role. But because they can take it. And the system - the consortium, the innovation lab, the co-creative process, the regenerative project - has learned, without ever naming it, how to identify who that person is and redistribute its discomfort accordingly. (WE ARE TRAINING WOMEN TO HOLD SPACE FOR DYSFUNCTION AND CALLING IT RESILIENCE | Roots & Rupture Substack)

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(A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council)

"The video, released recently by the Norwegian Consumer Council, is an absurdist take on a serious issue; it is part of a wider, global campaign aimed at fighting back against the “enshittification”, or gradual deterioration, of digital products and services" - (‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ | The Guardian)

See also ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year | The Guardian

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Calling in is not for everyone or every circumstance. It’s not fair, for example, to insist that people hurt by cruel or careless language or actions be responsible for the personal growth of those who have injured them; calling in should not demand involuntary emotional labor. (via Speaking Up Without Tearing Down | Southern Poverty Law Center)

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White partners in interracial relationships need to actively approach these conversations around race... (How 2020 changed interracial relationships | GQ)

See also the article, Racial microaggressions in interracial relationships

Racial microaggressions in interracial relationships

Racial microaggressions, which include racial invalidation, are emerging as an overlooked but significant form of partner maltreatment, espe

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We have built an Ethnic Representation Index (ERI) that gives a comprehensive perspective on the different aspects of the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (B.A.M.E.)* student journey as well as staff (academic and professional services) and executive representation. (Ethnic Representation Index 2024 | Birmingham City University)