Lyn Romeo: I’m delighted to as soon as once more host grownup social employees Nimal Jude and Liz Howard as visitor bloggers, this time introducing their newest thrilling enterprise, the Anti-racist Listening Project podcast. Ensuring social work apply at all times challenges discrimination and oppression is crucial if we’re to really promote a human rights and social justice primarily based method to working with people, households and the varied communities we serve.
What’s all of it about?
So, we held a day of anti-racist activism in 2021 utilizing social media (#AntiRacistSW21), urging senior leaders to take motion. Then we printed a ebook: The Anti-racist Social Worker. We spoke at a number of occasions, held webinars and inspired others to make an anti-racist pledge. As a gaggle of anti-racist activists, we thought what subsequent?
We had picked up that many individuals had been grappling with the identical difficult and difficult conversations round racism we had been having. We needed to do one thing to assist others work by way of their very own anti-racist motion challenges and to share some concepts and insights into how others attempt to navigate these seemingly on a regular basis points.
We considered blogs and newsletters, however everybody’s acquired a lot to learn already. ‘How a few podcast?’ we mentioned in nearly concord.
We’re at all times eager to search out new methods to maintain the anti-racism dialog going, however we recognise from our personal experiences how tough this may be. That is delicate stuff. The stakes are excessive for folks experiencing racism and for these making an attempt to navigate the journey to turning into an ally. There may be the fear about making errors, being misunderstood and hurting folks.
The Anti-Racist Listening Venture Podcast is born
The Anti-Racist Listening Venture is a option to join with folks on the market doing the work of anti-racism and to encourage people who aren’t certain the place to begin to give it a go, in spite of everything anti-racism is all about motion.
We need to demystify what conversations about anti-racism sound like, how they occur and most significantly what we are able to all study from them.
The podcast options social employees, colleagues from different professions, family and friends in dialog, sharing their experiences of “doing anti-racism” exploring the challenges and constructive change that’s occurring from a lived expertise and allyship perspective.
Every episode has a message about anti-racist motion to remove and take into consideration however most significantly it’s name to motion.
The podcast can be utilized in several methods, together with taking part in episodes in groups, listening as a household or in academic settings, all with the aim of beginning conversations about anti-racism that result in motion.
