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“When the gallery doors stay shut, the streets become the canvas. Non-Western artists are told their work doesn’t ‘belong’ inside—so they’re forced to sell it outside, on walls, on corners, on concrete. But every spray, every stroke is resistance. Street art isn’t just rebellion—it’s survival."

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NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY in collaboration with Black History Month Antwerp. Check out our intagram to view more and stay updated. 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼

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Why is my curriculum white?

In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, '42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected issues of diversity, equality and discrimination.' In addition, it found that, '34 per cent stated they felt unable to bring their perspective as a Black [BME] student to lectures and tutor meetings. A running theme through both the survey and focus group data was a frustration that courses were designed and taught by non-Black teachers, and often did not take into account diverse backgrounds and views'. As a result, the NUS proposed a set of recommendations, including the notion that, 'institutions must strive to minimise Euro-centric bias in curriculum design, content and delivery and to establish mechanisms to ensure this happens. Universities Scotland has published an excellent example of why and how this can be done in their race equality toolkit, Embedding Race Equality into the Curriculum'. 

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First Women of Philosophy

https://aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy

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#BreakTheCanon #WeCanNotWorkLikeThis  #TransnationalAlliance #Contour9

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Exhausted Geographies is a collaborative publishing practice by Shahana Rajani, Zahra Malkani and Abeera Kamran, based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a series of publications exploring image, text and the city. Each volume of Exhausted Geographies mobilises a crucial, cross-disciplinary political imaginary to rethink current representations of Karachi and includes a wide range of topics that provide new insights into the social, spatial and discursive fabric of the city.

Check out Exhausted Geographies: http://exhaustedgeographies.com/index.html

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GenderFail is a publishing and programming initiative that seeks to encourage projects that foster an intersectional queer subjectivity. For GenderFail, a queer subjectivity is one that pushes against a capitalist, racist, ableist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-environmental ideology. Our projects look at various forms of failure - from personal, public, and political perspectives - as a boundless form of creative potential. GenderFail is fueled by the messiness of collaboration, education, and community to continue to push our goals of failing forward. GenderFail embraces failure as a site of cultural production. GenderFail has been apart of exhibitions, programs and events at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City), The International Center of Photography (NYC), Wendy's Subway (Brooklyn), Sediment Arts (Richmond), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), EFA Project Space (NYC),Book culture apart of the Contemporary Artists' Books Conference (Long Island City), Washington Center for the Arts (Washington DC), Ulises Books (Philadelphia) Anderson Gallery (Richmond) and After School Special (Milwaukee)

GenderFail’s extensive library of art books, artist books and zines is available to the public upon request or at scheduled times, and we have been offering free use of Risograph machine printing to queer, trans, and non-binary identifying folks since Fall 2017. It is GenderFail’s mission to use these programs to share whatever resources we can with the communities we inhabit.

Check out GenderFail site: http://www.genderfail.space/index.html

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