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One of Us?: Complicity and Critique After the Christchurch Massacre. 2: Reflections


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In this episode, Sabah Rind, Kim Scott, Ayman Qwaider and Sky Croeser reflect on what 'One of Us' means in the context of the Christchurch massacres and other recent acts of racist violence. The panel is introduced by Rabia Siddique.   For video from the event, including poetry and the opening ceremony, please visit the Deathscapes engagements page

Who are "we"? who is "one of us"? Who are we part of? Whose humanity do we recognise as akin to ours?

 

In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, Easter bombings in Sri Lanka,  and recent attacks on US synagogues, we continue to face questions of  them and us as national and global tensions play out in new  configurations of violence and terror.

This symposium - jointly organised by the School of Media, Creative  Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University & The Museum of Freedom  and Tolerance - considered the fraught term one of us, exploring  questions of the normalization of racism, everyday Islamophobia, and the  connections between various forms of othering - us and them - in  Australia and elsewhere.

 

Artwork for the episode is by the talented Yi Xiao Chen @jyxchen,  featuring the  work of master calligrapher Zhang Di Hua and Osama Mah.  The flowers are painted with the words Freedom and Tolerance and were  part of a garden of healing, projected on the Perth Cultural Centre  screen in  tribute to the victims of the Christchurch Massacre, on the  evening of the symposium.

 

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