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Posted on July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

Which box to tick? A conversation with whiteness

This is a guest post from Gabriela Greenaway, an MA student in Applied Linguistics at UCL and co-editor of Rethinking Matters. Which box shall I tick? She asks. Sorry, what? The weary blue eyes of the midwife after a long shift look at me, then my baby, then my partner. Which box shall I tick? …

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Posted on June 29, 2020November 18, 2021

Who is not on the list? Navigating white academia

This is a guest contribution from Sibo Kanobana, a Phd Candidate in sociolinguistics, employability, and migration. “Your name is not on the list”, she said, “I can’t let you in”. She wasn’t unfriendly but made clear that I wasn’t supposed to be there, that I should leave. A few weeks ago I got an e-mail …

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