Anti-racism and Civic Courage Training (ACCT) is a transnational project focusing on the decrease of discrimination, including multi-dimensional discrimination and racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance. The partners also aim at combating discrimination, hate crime & hate speech across the EU.
https://www.acctforchange.eu/anti-racism-conference-community-responses-to-breaking-down-structures/
November 18, 2024My name is Kiara, I have been an intern at
Crossing Borders for almost three months now, and on Friday, October 25th, I
had the amazing opportunity of attending the first (and possibly not the last)
ACCT Anti-Racism Conference at Union.
I also had the chance of not only attending
the event but watching the event slowly come together from designing posters
for the events and boosting them on social media pages, on the day of I also
had the opportunity of successfully moderating a panel on Grassroots to Global:
Building Anti-Racist Movements. On the day there were a total of three
emotional and upbeat dance, theater, and rap performances, as well as two
panels and two keynote speakers who each touched on relevant themes related to
racism in the performing arts, obstacles to funding, discriminatory immigration
policies and the motivations that brought them to their work. On attendee and
Crossing Border Intern, Egle shared her impression of the event stating, ““I
think it was a good start for starting a conversation…I see this event as a
comfortable starting point in the discussion about racism in Denmark.” Another
attendee by the name of Laura, also shared her thoughts in reaction to the
theater performance, of Blinkered, performed by Wanjiku Victoria Seest. In her
words, “the performance made a big impression on me. It reminded me of the
danger of a single narrative, how it simplifies and dehumanizes a whole
continent and its people, by taking away the nuances and their and replacing
them with assumptions and stereotypes. It was such a powerful performance, I
had goosebumps the whole time!”
Ultimately, I would also agree with everyone
at the conference on Friday that the conference provided a useful entry point
to normalize conversations of race, racism, discrimination, and anti-racist
organizing that is happening locally in Copenhagen and being acknowledged at
the systemic level nationally.
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