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Taking inspiration from the deep well of anti-racist and social activist writers such as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Angela Davis, each chapter offers tips on how to learn, reflect and act in a society where we are told we are powerless. (Radical Justice: Building the World We Need)

See also Emotion Regulation | Psychology Today

See also The Feelings Wheel: unlock the power of your emotions | Calm and The Feelings Wheel: A Visual Tool for Identifying Emotions | Neurodivergent Insights

See also To have better disagreements, change your words – here are 4 ways to make your counterpart feel heard and keep the conversation going | The Conversation

I feel X when Y happens because I need Z. (Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg spent 40 years studying communication in war zones, prisons, schools in crisis and families on the edge of collapse | soulmindhub Instagram)

Anthems of dissent and opposition have featured often in The Life of a Song series (via When Woody Guthrie, Sinéad O’Connor and others took a stand — the stories behind 22 protest songs)

For more info see Inequalities in access to elite occupations | Nuffield Foundation

Because Western renderings of the continent (even contemporary ones) have been mired in condescension, benevolent or otherwise, the African artist enters a distorted frame. The psychic toll of challenging historically racist depictions—those that originated during colonial eras but still proliferate now—disturbs the work of many photographers from the continent. (via A Brilliant Travelogue That Presents Africa Through a New Lens | The Atlantic)

See also Rene Matić – 'Born British, die British' | Turner Prize 2025 | Tate | YouTube and ORDINARY MIRACLES. A Conversation with Rene Matić | Flash Art.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not come from long hours alone. It comes from paying attention. (...) people who entered the work because they love something outside themselves. A species. A place. A living world that felt worth protecting. That love is not a weakness. It is the fuel. And lately, it has become a source of pain. (A profession built on hope, strained by loss | MONGABAY)

PFI is a voluntary and independent Palestinian non-profit organization established in 2019. The PFI was born from a shared desire among active Palestinian-identified film professionals to create an inclusive body with the mission of developing, promoting, and preserving Palestine’s cinema, and to empower the film industry in Palestine and for Palestinians around the world. (via Palestine Film Institute)

The person with the widest window of tolerance becomes the load-bearing wall of a structure that was never designed to be transformed. The one who can hold the most becomes the one who holds everything. Not because they are respected. Not because the group has chosen them consciously for this role. But because they can take it. And the system - the consortium, the innovation lab, the co-creative process, the regenerative project - has learned, without ever naming it, how to identify who that person is and redistribute its discomfort accordingly. (WE ARE TRAINING WOMEN TO HOLD SPACE FOR DYSFUNCTION AND CALLING IT RESILIENCE | Roots & Rupture Substack)

See also ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year | The Guardian

Calling in is not for everyone or every circumstance. It’s not fair, for example, to insist that people hurt by cruel or careless language or actions be responsible for the personal growth of those who have injured them; calling in should not demand involuntary emotional labor. (via Speaking Up Without Tearing Down | Southern Poverty Law Center)

We have built an Ethnic Representation Index (ERI) that gives a comprehensive perspective on the different aspects of the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (B.A.M.E.)* student journey as well as staff (academic and professional services) and executive representation. (Ethnic Representation Index 2024 | Birmingham City University)