"Exhibitions or events around ecological crisis and environmental change are often predicated on experiences in the Northern Hemisphere, so we think about polar ice caps and forlorn polar bears when actually the human experience of climate change is experienced predominantly by people in the Global South."
Arun Arora, the bishop of Kirkstall, stated that the Church of England's decision to cut funding for racial justice from 26.7m to 12m reflects resistance among some members to support racial equity initiatives; he fears extreme views are influencing decision-making.
"Nothing that we're asking for is impossible or out of the ordinary at all," said Natasha Nicholes, founder and executive director of the We Sow We Grow Project, an urban farm in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood.
Whiteness operates as a diversion, serving as a dehumanizing strategy. Gendered antiblack racism is a form of psychological terrorism. One way to disrupt both whiteness and gendered anti-black racism without being manipulated is by exercising our imagination.
The TIF funding system effectively sequesters tax revenue, favoring wealthy developers while depriving public schools and essential services of crucial funding.