Thanks very much for your comment.

You respond to my point that ‘whiteness is only exposed when it’s not normalised but when it is ‘acted out’ when we are made aware of the advantages of being white and the disadvantages of being a minority colour,’ then ask whether we should challenge the ‘‘White’ historical universit…Read more

Thanks for your comment. I’m glad some of what I wrote resonated with you.

I agree that there are fairer ways of conducting a privilege walk.

I also agree that, ‘it should not be the responsibility of the oppressed to educate the privileged’. From Robin DiAngelo, ‘we (white people) have off-loaded the work of anti-racism onto…Read more

Thanks for your reply to my blog post.

I’m glad you find my point about the performance of whiteness interesting, in response to the student’s point when they referred to their supervisor as being ‘really white’ (Garrett, 2024). This idea of levels of whiteness being culturally embedded and performed seems compelling for the…Read more

Thanks for your reply to my blog post, it’s really interesting to read. I hadn’t known about the Ladders of Empowerment that you wrote about. I agree that, ’embedding change for a person of colour should not mean ‘taking responsibility’ to educate on how to change’. I’m also interested in Robin Diangelo’s perspective when she say…Read more

It was really good to read your blog post.

I’m interested in the point you raise about ‘dominant voices such as white Christian Nationalism acting as obstacles to knowledge and influencing religious and non-religious communities to disempower and discredit other voices’, here marginalisation is enacted by those who possess a…Read more

I’m really interested by your point that ‘‘Faith’ and ‘Religion’ are unseen, in the student community’ and the way that you equate this with unseen disabilities. Before this subject was addressed on the course I realise that faith is not something that I often considered in a teaching context, partly because – as you say – it is r…Read more

It would be interesting to know how many disabilities are invisible, I think the proportion could be quite high.

Awareness raising in relation to the experience of people with disabilities seems really key as you suggest.

Best wishes,

Sid

I didn’t realise the number of neurodiverse students was so high, that’s really interesting.

Best wishes,

Sid

Thanks for your comment. I’m really interested in the point about the secularism of the University sector, it was something I utterly took as something normalised to the point of being invisible until I read Ian James Kidd’s comment in Rekis’s article. I think you’re right about Rekis’s point that secularism and knowledge control…Read more

Thanks so much for your comment on my blog post about faith and intersectionality.

I’m interested that you picked up on my discussion of academia as a secular space – it has only been through studying the Inclusive Practices unit that this point has really come to my attention, it was normalised in such a way that it seemed inv…Read more

I haven’t heard that we have access to ISA or ELS scores for students. I think it’s possible that only the main tutors working with a student have access to this kind of information for privacy reasons. I will ask though definitely.

Thanks,

Sid

I agree that inequalities such as Chay Brown’s should be addressed by UAL and Higher Education more widely.

In terms of uncovering the ‘unseen’ disabilities, from the perspective of Academic Support, we could articulate more clearly the kinds of support that we offer, such as our support potentially being of real benefit to…Read more

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