Join the first gathering of the “DAR” (decolonisation and anti-racism) study group: your modern-day book club that aims to foster the learning and dialogue that is needed in any effort towards social justice in higher education.
We offer a space that facilitates the analysis and discussion of texts, media and news, in the hope that you will join us as we call these into question, reflect on our own ideas and practices, and stretch our understandings beyond the colonial and racist confines of the academy. The study group is brought to you by the Pedagogies for Social justice project, which is a student-staff partnership at the University of Westminster.
Our first study group session is dedicated to questions concerning Intersectionality, a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, but a concept explored by many Black feminist writers and freedom fighters. We focus on this concept as calling to question the multiple forms of oppression (racism, sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism etc.) and how they create different modes of discrimination and disadvantage is not only important to our understanding of injustice, but how we understand and navigate our own identities within the university and wider society.
All University of Westminster students welcome.
