55 CANCRI E: Featuring Chenfei Xiao
1 December 2022 Spin : Breathe : Pump Augmented Reality. This blog post was provided by Chenfei Xiao as part of the We Bleed the Same Masterclass program. The WBTS Masterclasses brought together seven outstanding ANU students to learn about how art can be used as part of a campaign…
55 CANCRI E: Featuring Shebani Jeyakumar
1 December 2022 I Am Ashwin This blog post was provided by Shebani Jeyakumar as part of the We Bleed the Same Masterclass program. The WBTS Masterclasses brought together seven outstanding ANU students to learn about how art can be used as part of a campaign against racism. The…
55 CANCRI E: Featuring Yalan Chen
1 December 2022 Universal Consciousness Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 120cm(H)x180cm(W)x30mm(Depth) This blog post was provided by Yalan Chen as part of the We Bleed the Same Masterclass program. The WBTS Masterclasses brought together seven outstanding ANU students to learn about how art…
From Dago to Wog: Remembering stinging slurs
18 October 2022 ‘Dago’ is a slur that circulated across the Pacific. It’s a word that was derogatorily and prejudicially applied to people from the Mediterranean region. Put simply, ‘dago’ was a racial slur that insulted a certain group of migrants as alike and unwanted within the operations of…
Engaging a new generation of students in Holocaust education
22 August 2022 The Holocaust is one of the darkest chapters in human history. Learning about the Holocaust can evoke empathy for minority groups persecuted worldwide, and can also help students better understand pertinent problems in our contemporary society, bigotry among them. Yad Vashem, the…
We Bleed the Same: Reflections on an exhibition combating racism through the arts
17 June 2022 Are you a Star Wars fan? Ewan McGregor, lead actor and Executive Producer of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi TV miniseries posted a video message to millions of Star Wars fans on 1 June 2022 in support of his co-star, Moses Ingram, who was being racially vilified online. McGregor started…
Thinking beyond heteropessimism: A Q&A with The Heteropessimist podcast
28 April 2022 One of this year’s ECR grant recipients was a project focused on Asa Seresin’s (2019) concept of ‘heteropessimism’. Seresin describes this concept as ‘performative disaffiliations with heterosexuality, usually expressed in the form of regret, embarrassment, or hopelessness…