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Happy Disability History Month 2024!
Spanning the period including International HIV/AIDS Day, International Day of People with Disabilities, and International Human Rights Day, Disability History Month seeks to redress the severe and entrenched inequalities experienced by all those with disabilities, including people who develop illnesses as diverse as cancer and HIV, who are neurodiverse, or develop mental health problems.
One of the ongoing concerns about awareness months is that awareness and effort to undo prejudice and discrimination is needed every month of the year and not just the one where it receives special focus. So how can we help make racism history?
Author of ground breaking novels that explore themes of African culture and its wilful debasement and displacement by colonialism, Achebe lectured worldwide co-founded and directed Nigerian publishing houses won the Man Booker International Prize and Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and received honorary degrees from over 30 universities worldwide.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1932, Hall graduated from Oxford University to become Director of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Professor of Sociology at the Open University, television presenter, journal editor, President of the British Sociological Association, and chair of two arts organisations. He famously coined the term ‘Thatcherism’.
A prominent and award-winning scholar, Gilroy rewrote the established narrative of global history, overturning romantic stories of witness, religion and the mythical ethnic homogeneity of Britain before the slave trade, challenged existing notions of trade, and breathed new life into the humanist tradition by involving philosophy, sociology, musicology, literature, history and critical theory into his study of the humanities and extending his arguments into scholarly and political discourses on race and anti-racism.
Self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia
Here are a few select pics of Library staff wearing red against racism today.
Pick up your free Show racism the red card pin badge from the Library Reception!
bell hooks’ work explored the interaction of sexism, racism and economic disparity. Her seminal work Ain’t I a Woman? was named one of the 20 most influential books published in 20 years. A lifelong activist, hooks insisted that social theory had to speak to and impact the experience of the oppressed to have value: that “our intellectual work will never impact on their lives if we do not move it out of the academy”.
ow Racism the Red Card will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Wear Red Day on Friday 18 October 2024. Show your support by dressing in something red for Wear Red Day on Friday then share your selfie with us using hashtag #WRD24UoP
