Siobhan Kangataran

Is That It?

As we return to some form of “normal”, I feel exhausted and disappointed. If any positives were to come from the chaos of the last 6 months, surely it is that we have the choice to build a “new normal”? That we don’t have to go back to commuting 5 days a week, losing hoursContinueContinue reading “Is That It?”

Feminism Let Me Down

I thought that being a feminist meant I was doing “the right thing” for women – helping to promote gender equality, supporting women at work as well as in the home. I had heard about intersectionality, but I naively assumed that remembering to include profiles of black women, or inviting my black friends to speakContinueContinue reading “Feminism Let Me Down”

I Am Brown.

I am brown. I used to call myself “mixed race” but now that I know that race is a construct, it feels like that term is no longer accurate. I am half-Indian, half-Irish, born in Malaysia, raised in Ireland, living in England for nearly 10 years. My mother was white and Irish, my father wasContinueContinue reading “I Am Brown.”

I’m racist.

And so are you. Not consciously. Not willingly. Not intentionally. But we are. As human beings, especially those of us who are white, or white-passing, particularly those of us raised in white dominant countries, we have been raised in racist structures, with a racist view on the world, whether we like it or not. WhetherContinueContinue reading “I’m racist.”

Making Our Anti-Racism Journeys Sustainable

It’s 2020, and we are somehow still fighting racism. I say “we”, but I am new to this anti-racism game, and I know I have a lot to learn. So as difficult as it has been for the last few weeks, I can only imagine how hard it has been for everyone doing the workContinueContinue reading “Making Our Anti-Racism Journeys Sustainable”