My Dear White Friend: Please Don’t Make Me Your Textbook
When you ask a Black friend to explain racism, who carries the cost of the lesson? Letter Four explores self-education, emotional labour, defensiveness and a harder question: does your allyship extend to Black people you do not already know?
My Dear White Friend – Letter Two: The Discomfort of Looking Within
What happens when friendship, allyship and inclusion no longer reassure us, but ask us to examine ourselves? Letter Two explores racial bias, institutional silence and the difficult work of looking within.
My Dear White Friend: A Note Between Letters – Are My Letters Reaching You?
Before writing Letter Two of My Dear White Friend, I find myself needing to pause. Reflections on belonging and the public discussion surrounding Professor Arday have resurfaced memories, emotions and questions I thought I had put away. This is a note from the space between the letters.
My Dear White Friend
Understanding racism intellectually is one thing. Sitting with it when it becomes personal is something else. In Letter One of My Dear White Friend, I reflect on friendship, White privilege, bias, belonging and what happens when the lens turns inward.
