If Not Us is an online journal devoted to sharing human-centred ideas through an intersectional lens. It draws on both aspects of what a journal can be: a repository of academic contributions and a record of everyday thoughts. Within our journal's chapters, you can find discourses about human understandings of justice, identity, and belonging written from an array of interdisciplinary perspectives.
Bryn Evans • May 7, 2024
An op-ed on how the UK's plan to send migrants to Rwanda is built on the shoulders of decades of immigration policy intended to exclude non-white people from the country.
In addition to writing original discourses, the If Not Us team curates a collection of educational resources created by well-known speakers and authors, to help supplement our discussion of social justice topics.
Video Recommendations
Recentering Earth in the Legal System
Erin Matariki Carr, a Maori lawyer from the Tuhoe Nation, explains how a Maori worldview can inform approaches to global environmental policy.
Intersectionality and Gender Equity
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at UCLA who popularized the term "critical race theory," explores the need for intersectionality in social justice.
An Interview with Stephen Kapos
Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos sits down with activist Owen Jones to discuss antisemitism, Zionism, and Israeli genocide.
Book Recommendations
bell hooks, all about love
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
Jessica Hernandez, Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
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