Fall back and unpack.

In the Season One finale, I chat with my sister, Awura Abena, and our childhood friend, Adjoa, about shutting up. We discuss whether we believe in allyship, the dangers of speaking for others, oppression olympics, emotions being viewed as irrational, intersectionality, always recognising your privilege, false equivalences and shutting up. We vent, rant and call you out to call you in.

The Subtlety of It is about seemingly small aspects of our identity which affect us in not so subtle ways. Let's unpack these things - consciously, openly and unapologetically. Hosted by Nana. Produced by Awura Abena and Nana. 

The Subtlety of It is recorded and produced on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I would like to pay my respect to the Ancestors who protect this sacred land and live and speak through community members. I would like to also pay my respect to Elders and community members who are the ongoing custodians of this land and pass on knowledge of Country and the beauty of their cultures through generations. Sovereignty was never ceded. This land always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

This is a SYN Media Podcast. It was made possible with support from Creative Victoria and the Community Broadcasting Foundation. 

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RESOURCES (I'll add more over summer)

Indigenous Action --> Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex: http://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/

Kimberle Crenshaw (who coined the term intersectionality) --> Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf

Kimberle Crenshaw (who coined the term intersectionality) --> Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mapping-margins.pdf

Kimberle Crenshaw --> On Intersectionality: Essential Writings https://www.bookdepository.com/On-Intersectionality-Kimberle-Crenshaw/9781620972700

Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati --> The Fifth Black Woman https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2059&context=faculty_scholarship

Audre Lorde --> Your Silence Will Not Protect You https://www.bookdepository.com/Your-Silence-Will-Not-Protect-You-Audre-Lorde/9780995716223

James Baldwin --> The Fire Next Time https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Fire-Next-Time-James-Baldwin/9780140182750?redirected=true&selectCurrency=AUD&w=AF45AU99Z3ML52A80TJ6&pdg=pla-293946777986:cmp-6919946397:adg-82581721111:crv-389775188388:pos-:dev-c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2pmIw5S55gIVijgrCh170Qi1EAQYAiABEgLYdfD_BwE

Tressie McMillan Cottom --> Thick : And Other Essays https://www.bookdepository.com/Thick-Tressie-McMillan-Cottom/9781620974360?ref=grid-view&qid=1576464700602&sr=1-1

Toni Morrison --> The Source of Self Regard https://www.bookdepository.com/Source-Self-Regard-Toni-Morrison/9780525521037

Reni Eddo-Lodge --> Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race https://www.booktopia.com.au/why-i-m-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-reni-eddo-lodge/book/9781408870587.html

James Baldwin --> Short clip "How much time do you want for your progress?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUlE5ldPvM

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --> We Should All Be Feminists https://www.booktopia.com.au/we-should-all-be-feminists-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/book/9780008115272.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4pXt9Ja55gIVwyMrCh38ow03EAQYAiABEgLbofD_BwE