The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) aims to be as representative of as much of the workforce as possible and diversity, equality, inclusion and accessibility is essential to what we do and what our organisation exists for. On Monday 1st June 2020 we posted a statement standing in solidarity with black communities across the world for #TheShowMustBePaused #BlackOutTuesday and pledged to continue informing our future practices and take responsibility to ensure everything we do is inclusive and accessible to all.
We are sharing resources and opportunities to support the fight for racial justice. While raising awareness is crucial, action is more so and we hope that this page will be of use to our team, associates and members in order to inspire and implement meaningful change.
Donate:
- The BEMIS organisation has highlighted the Ethnic Minority National Resilience Network members across Scotland where you can make donations locally
- UKBLM Fund
- Black Minds Matter
- Justice for Sheku Bayoh
- Mermaids
- ActBlue (split your donation between 15 US racial justice charities)
- Exist Loudly Fund
- Black Protest Legal Support UK
- YCSA
- The Unity Centre
- The African Arts Centre
- Ubuntu Women Shelter
- Maryhill Integration Network
- Positive Action Housing
- Black Protest Legal Support UK
- Gendered Intelligence
- Green & Black Cross
- Kaleidoscope International Trust
- Stonewall
Read:
- Black Lives Matter
- The Anti-Racist Educator
- 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship
- The Music Industry Needs Confrontation More Than Reflection
- Ways You Can Help
- dweller: writings from a black perspective
- British Red Cross
- Inclusivity: Support BAME Trans People by Sabah Choudrey
- Verso Books is offering FREE ebooks on Black radical thought (but please donate to Black causes if you can afford to do so)
- Scottish Trans Alliance
- Do The Work: an anti-racist reading list
Listen:
- About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
- BBC Radio 4: ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernadine Evaristo
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- NPR: Code Switch
- QueerWOC
- Eight Podcasts to Deepen Your Knowledge of Black History
- All My Relations
- 1619 by The New York Times
- BBC Radio 3: A History of Black Classical Music
- The Diversity Gap
- BBC Radio 4: Art of Now: Black and Creative in Scotland
- Slay In Your Lane
- AfroQueer Podcast
- Desert Island Discs: Bryan Stevenson
- Pod Save the People
- AAPF: Intersectionality Matters
- BBC World Service: Witness Black History
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