NEU Black* Educators Conference

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Interested In Being An Ealing Delegate?

Conference sessions are after work on Thursday 11th and Friday12th, from 5:30-8:00pm. Saturday’s session is from 10:30am – 6pm. This is an online event.

 

This year’s theme is: Black Lives Matter in the NEU: 30 years of our activism, what next?

This largest conference celebrating Black educational staff in Europe will be held online again this year – offering a unique opportunity to engage and organise with Black members across the country.

* Black’ is “all members who self-identify as Black, Asian or any other ‘minority ethnic’ groups who do not identify themselves as white”. This includes Gypsy and Roma non-white people.

We do not use the terms BME or BAME because:

  • They suggest that individuals are a homogenous group.
  • They can appear to be convenient descriptions but are not generally identities which people have themselves chosen to identify.
  • They overlook the fact that African, Asian and all non-white people are actually a global majority.
  • The terms can pathologise certain groups and implies the putting down of a group as ‘’less than’’.