I have not been rigorous about posting updates to Substack. The main reason is that I wanted to wait to be able to share the recording from the Sydney launch of The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy. This event took place on 8 October, but it took me until now to be edits the subtitles as the conversation between Shawna Tang, Kaiaya Aboagye, Keiran Stewart-Assheton and myself went on for almost 3 hours!

I want to thank each of them so much for the brilliance, incision courage and heart they brought to this, and to their lives and work every day. It was truly an honour for me to share this space with them. And I wish to thank Ross Goodman-Brown for opening the space at Frontyard to host the launch for me, and for convencing me it was a good idea. We raised almost $1000 split evenly between the Al Aqrah family from Deir Al Balah, Gaza and Mob Strong General Fund.

I am sure you will enjoy listening!

I have been lucky to have been invited to talk about the book on several podcasts over recent months. Just in case you haven’t had enough The New Racial Regime content, you may enjoy these conversations, each of which engages different aspects of the book with brilliant interlocutors.

Resistance is Fertile, Psychlib Episode 26, a wide ranging conversation with Benji Schoendorff and Sacha Rombouts about race, white supremacy and anti-Zionism.

A fabulous in-depth conversation with Anthony Ballas on the De Facto podcast:

Interdependent Study highlighted the book on their pod. I found this to be such a cool format. The presenters, Damien Franze and Aaron Hood discuss their impressions of the book, pulling out parts that resonated with them. They then note the applicability of what they read to contemporary problems. Lastly they each suggest further reading.

This is such a useful way to approach collective study. It would be particularly good for those who wish to teach the book or to discuss it as part of political education. Listen here:

The book was reviewed by Themrise Khan for the LSE blog.

I was invited to University of California Riverside, Irvine and San Diego to speak about the book and was honoured to be hosted by Dylan Rodríguez, David Theo Goldberg and Babak Rahimi.

In late September, an article I wrote with Debbie Bargallie and Kieron Turner was published in Ethnic and Racial Studies. The article, titled ‘Australian racial capitalism, Indigenous exploitation and the racial regime of recognition and reconciliation’, is part of a special issue on ‘Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy’ edited by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Amanda Lewis. It is available to read open-access here.

Lastly for the updates, I was in conversation with the Palestinian scholar, Ihab Shalbak, at the University of Sydney on October 14 for the Mosaic Network’s Let’s Talk About Race series. My contribution was titled, ‘Why is it still so difficult to talk about race'? and Ihab expertly guided the conversation leading to a very interesting discussion with the audience.

What am I working on now? I am writing responses to generous readings of The New Racial Regime for a special roundtable for the Journal of Intercultural Studies edited by Marilena Indelicato and Sandeep Bakshi. The reviews were written by Debbie Bargallie, Houria Bouteldja and Too Black and each one focuses on a different aspect of the book allowing me to explore a variety of interesting questions in response.

Earlier this year, with Kaiya Aboagye, Ghanaian, Aboriginal, South sea and Torres Strait Islander scholar, we received funding from the Institute for Culture and Society for Afro/Indigneous Relationalities lab, a cosmic collective between Indigenous Oceanic people + people of the African diaspora, coming together to re-story our relations, repair our politics and build a new Blk political praxis . The work is guided by Kaiya with myself in support role. Our first event is being held next week. So more on this exciting project in the near future!

Finally, Tom Six and I are following up on the symposiums we coorganised last summer as part of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership on the theoretical and methodological possibilities of Cedric Robinson’s racial regimes. We are planning a special issue and a longer term collective writing project in collaboration with our comrades, Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond. Watch this space!