More Than a Hashtag and 'Competitive' is Not a Salary Bracket
Have You Got 5 Minutes? - A podcast by Rebecca Roberts & Harriet Small
In this episode, we discuss why online activism is not where the action stops. What role do we have as PR and Communications professionals to change the narrative and breakdown racist rhetoric in society? Following the massacre in Atlanta on March 16, the conversation about racism, particularly to east and south Asian communities, has been ignited, with the hashtag #StopAsianHate but it has to be more than an online gesture. For our 5 minutes, we talk about the problems associated with using ‘competitive, as a salary disclosure. Racist anti-Asian hashtags spiked after Trump first tweeted ‘Chinese virus,’ study finds https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/19/trump-tweets-chinese-virus-racist/ My allies never post Black squares by Harriet Small Okot https://www.futureproofingcomms.co.uk/thelatest/fp4-chapter04 “I’ve Experienced The Insidious Chill Of Casual Racism”: Why The #StopAsianHate Hashtag Is So Important by Andrea Cheong https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/stop-asian-hate-hashtag This Is What Anti-Asian Hate Looks Like in the UK By Angela Hui https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adzeb/anti-asian-hate-crimes-uk Asian Americans reported 3,800 hate-related incidents during the pandemic, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/16/asian-americans-hate-incidents-pandemic-study There’s only so much pain the Asian community can swallow before we realise we’re drowning, Yang Tian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/22/theres-only-so-much-pain-the-asian-community-can-swallow-before-we-realise-were-drowning Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death https://www.channel4.com/programmes/caroline-flack-her-life-and-death Comm2Point0 Job descriptions https://comms2point0.co.uk/comms2point0/2018/2/6/comms-team-20-job-description-a-new-download Is your job description the barrier?https://comms2point0.co.uk/comms2point0/2020/7/18/is-your-job-description-the-barrier Find Rebecca: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebecca7roberts https://twitter.com/threadandfable Linkedin: Rebecca Roberts Website: https://threadandfable.com/ Podcast: The Hear It podcast @hearitpodcast Find Harriet: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarrietSmallies Linkedin: Harriet Small Website: https://www.commsoveracoffee.com