{"id":6023,"date":"2019-02-13T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:35:12","slug":"being-an-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/being-an-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Being an Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">Carys Afoko\/ Dawn Foster\/ Sridhar Venkatapuram<\/span><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the recording <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20190219_beingAnAlly.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wTxggivqPRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Many people see themselves as allies, not themselves marginalized but nonetheless standing alongside members of marginalized groups in their struggle for social justice. The role of more powerful groups can be important, but some attempts at solidarity can also badly fail the very people they intend to help. We reflect on the significant questions and challenges involved in being an ally amidst the changing social justice movements of the twenty-first century. What does being an ally mean? When and why are allies important? And why do some attempts end in failure?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Speakers<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welevelup.org\/who-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carys Afoko<\/a>, Activist and Co-Founder, Level Up<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dawn_Foster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dawn Foster<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Journalist, <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sspp\/departments\/ghsm\/people\/academic\/venkatapuram.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sridhar Venkatapuram<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Senior Lecturer of Global Health\u00a0and Philosophy,\u00a0KCL<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chair<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/sarah-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Fine<\/a><\/span>, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, KCL<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Recorded on the 13 February 2019 at the LSE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carys Afoko\/ Dawn Foster\/ Sridhar Venkatapuram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":7266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[54,84,55],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics","tag-feministphilosophy","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2019\/03\/5-Being-an-Ally-simple.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1z9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6063,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}