By Justin Laing | November 25, 2020 | Antiracism, Critical Philanthropy, Diversity Inclusion Equity
White Privilege: The Tip of the Iceberg Using Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” as a model, please see below 13 examples of how White Privilege shows up in larger budget, predominantly White arts organizations. I want to say at the outset that though I am not placing… Read More >
By Justin Laing | September 10, 2020 | Antiracism, Critical Philanthropy, Racial Capitalism
I think a lot about “framing”. “Framing” is what we do every day as we position our ideas with a particular rationale and context. It’s how we try to get people to see it “our way” and how others try to get us to see something “their way”. It’s the… Read More >
By Justin Laing | April 2, 2020 | Critical Philanthropy, Non reformist reforms
Initially it felt encouraging to see this call from philanthropy serving organizations for foundations to increase spending at this time and for communities of color to be named specifically, but then I thought about it some more and lost my feeling of encouragement (curious to me that the Association of Black Foundation… Read More >
By Justin Laing | March 21, 2020 | Critical Philanthropy
There are a number of funding programs for nonprofits coming from predominantly white led organizations in response to COVID-19, and the way systemic racial capitalism works, without a designed interruption it is a certainty these funds will benefit predominantly white led nonprofits. This is not to say the funds are… Read More >
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 >