By Justin Laing | November 6, 2019 | Non reformist reforms
I was recently asked for a reading list on whiteness, race, racism (synonyms, all of them) and ended up writing a summary and synthesis of books. Whiteness and capitalism are inseparable in my understanding and so some of these, and the first one, are critiques of capitalism. The list got… Read More >
By Justin Laing | August 23, 2019 | Diversity Inclusion Equity
In a couple of weeks, I’ll get to go to Minneapolis to support the work of the American Composers Forum as a facilitator of their racial equity and inclusion forum. A part of this project will be a day with artists as they review a Statement of Commitment to Racial… Read More >
By Justin Laing | August 17, 2019 | Diversity Inclusion Equity
I am going to be moving to this page posts I’ve written in the past but did not make it over when I changed websites. This was written in 2016, but the slide recently came up in a project I was working on and so I am thinking it’s still… Read More >
By Justin Laing | July 30, 2019 | Racial Capitalism
bell hooks is the person I associate with connecting how capital, whiteness and masculinity act in reinforcing ways and I’m getting better at sussing that out. Recently, reading How the White Race Was Invented by Theodore Allen, I came across a historical reference to “manhood suffrage” which, apparently, were the laws… Read More >
By Justin Laing | January 28, 2019 | What Are We Working On
The last section of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategies: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds is a series of facilitation tools. One of these tools I used recently is “the living agenda”, a way of building an agenda at the beginning of a gathering by asking people what are the topics they’d like… Read More >