Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Race in Australia is policed by White people in slippery ways: @rubyhamad is sometimes labelled 'White' until she writes something about racism or when she challenges views of Muslim-Australians, then she is no longer White White people want to define race, & deny space to #POC

Yumi Stynes talks about how damaging racist stereotypes were to her as a six year old. The first images she saw of Asian women on Australian TV are of women being raped in movies about war, or sexual comedy relief. It made her want to be distanced from negative representations

Yumi Stynes describes the violence that followed her on-air challenge to Kerri-Anne Kennerley being racist. She felt she couldn't stay silent. Amal Awad argues the producers wouldn't have expected Yumi to speak up. #WOC are expected to be silent

There's a comparison now between White women's emotional reaction to #WOC when they call out racism - and domestic violence This is highly damaging for several reasons 1/ #DFV cuts across race/class 2/ Migrant & refugee women experience lack of support & resources for #DFV 1/2

2/2 The need to compare racist White women to #DFV perpetrators is analogous to White people who want to compare other social experiences to racism The need to compare 'something bad' (WW tears) to 'something worse' (#DFV) misses structural dynamics of both racism & #DFV

Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been casually referenced a couple of times. Her experience is almost a cautionary tale to #WOC, shorthand for backlash to speaking up #WOC should reframe this. Our takeaway should be her bravery & intelligence, her body of work, not just her leaving AUS

There's a curious discussion about social media. It's obvious that the panellists have faced a lot of public harassment (so have many #WOC who write about race). But there's no recognition that social media is a of community to many #WOC who are otherwise isolated and unsupported

This room is majority White. Conversation missed an opportunity to make a connection between #WOC individual stories of White women's tears & institutional racism E.g. White privilege was divorced from the theory - which is *specifically* about White women, gender, race & power