Hello, fam! We hope you’re all holding up through this long, long winter, and looking forward to spring and the days ahead, as are we. Here’s what’s been going on with the FAIR Network. Amplifying students’ voices: 16 months to nowhere We started 2021 off strong, doing what was in our power to seek justice on behalf of a student who came to us after exhausting all of the official channels available to report a professor for their overtly racist behaviour during a lecture and

** A formal investigation has now been open to investigate some of the racists acts described in the previous email. As always, we will not be sharing names but if you recognised some of the events described in the Monday's post and want to corroborate in order to help, support fellow students and further dismiss and nip in the bud the accusations of defamation use Report and Support: https://reportandsupport.lshtm.ac.uk/ or feel free to reach out to the FAIR Network or the

** A formal investigation has now been open to investigate some of the racists acts described in this post. As always, we will not be sharing names but if you recognised some of the events described and want to corroborate in order to help, support fellow students and further dismiss and nip in the bud the accusations of defamation use Report and Support: https://reportandsupport.lshtm.ac.uk/ or feel free to reach out to the FAIR Network or the School directly. (whatever you

Hello Black Lives Matter-LSHTM community, and welcome back. We hope you have all had a safe, healthy and enjoyable break, despite the difficult times. We wanted to start things off right this year, and that means getting you up to speed on what we’ve been up to since our last newsletter. Seminar: Designing an inclusive and anti-racist summer project: questions and reflections Last 10 December, the FAIR Network hosted four amazing speakers representing different LSHTM departme

Hello Black Lives Matter-LSHTM community! The last week or so we’ve been positively jubilant, celebrating the results of the US elections. But we’ve still been hard at work on anti-racism at LSHTM. Here are the highlights: Presentation at the Global Health Lecture Series The big news this week was the ¡dynamite! lecture given by Emilie Koum Besson for the Global Health Lecture Series, ‘Understanding Black Lives Matter in Higher Education’. Organizers shared with us that it wa

Dear LSHTM Community, Like every paper you read, the selection below has been created to encourage and nurture critical thinking skills. ===== First, What do you know about xenocentrism? "The term xenocentrism refers to the desire to engage in the elements of another's culture rather than one's own. Styles, ideas and products can all be items of preference by someone with xenocentrist viewpoints" I recently read an amazing post on Linkedin shared by Aurore Iradukunda, a stude

Dear colleagues, Please find below the bibliography and slides of yesterday's lecture "Understanding Black Lives Matter in Higher Education". They will also be available on LSHTM Intranet. Bibliography (organised in order of appearance) PART 1 – Definition – Racism in Global & Public Health BLM-LSHTM - Anti-Racism toolkit – Decolonize LSHTM https://08ad386f-8781-40db-a975-896afc75239b.filesusr.com/ugd/047641_cdb0184b164340e1b35a1f15bd4bcfd2.pdf Dr. Camara Jones, MD Ph.D., MPH