Inclusivity Guide - AfrikaBurn | Invent the World Anew

AfrikaBurn 2025: 28 April to 4 May

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Purpose

This information pack provides links to South African history, data and statistics, diversity theory and a couple of simple practical exercises, to help us better understand AfrikaBurn within the context of the Burn Community and AfrikaBurn within the context of South Africa and the African continent. It’s an opportunity to bring awareness to own power and positions that we carry as individuals.

Bolded links to articles are must reads.

Other links provide background and are recommended reading.

Table 1: South Africa’s colonial/apartheid history and its effects

Article/video titles

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Towards a People’s history

Visual map of South Africa’s racial inequality in spatial terms

Adrian Frith.com

Race: What do South Africans really think?

Politics Web.co.za

How South Africa changed and didn’t over Mandela’s lifetime

PewResearch.org

Table 2: Racism, micro-aggressions, white privilege and fragility

Article/video titles

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4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears

Everyday Feminism.com

Jonathan Jansen: Dear White Brothers and Sisters, We Need To Talk…

How microaggressions are like mosquito bites, same difference

Aamer Rahman (Fear of the Brown Planet) Reverse Racism

Eusebius McKaiser Not a racist? Then do something

Mail & Guardian

Things White People can do to process their emotional responses to conversations about race

Everyday Feminism.com

How I learned to stop worrying and learned how to love discussing race

Melanie Funchess – Implicit Bias

Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

The Guardian.com

5 types of Becky’s

Check privilege when asking people of color for labor

EverydayFeminism.com

Table 3: Current socio-economic topics in South Africa

Article/video titles

Links

Long article on Rhodes Must Fall from UK perspective

The Guardian.com

White genocide: How the big
lie spread to the US and beyond

Mail & Guardian.co.za

Table 4: Perceptions of AfrikaBurn and Burning Man

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Dancing in the name of capitalism

Hard Questions 1 – Devin Isaacs

AfrikaBurn: The unbearable burning of whiteness

Burning Man: A ‘’White People Thing’’?

Table 5: Disability

Article/video titles

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Disability rights

Accepted Disability Terminology

Table 6: Gender

Article/video titles

Links

TSER Gender Pronouns

TransStudent.org

TSER Gender Unicorn

TransStudent.org

Table 7: Diversity, culture, power and identity

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Diversity Continuum

Culture Iceberg

Power Flower

Rusty Radiator

Table 8: structural racism, organisation blind spots

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Language shift in institutions

Inside Higher Ed

BALLE Outside In

Non-Profit Quarterly

2018 Commitments to Prioritize Equity at BALLE

Race, Power and Policy: Dismantling Structural Racism

Racial Equality Tools.org