The Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Industry (The Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club ep1)

On the inaugural episode of The Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club, Paniz and Tamsyn are joined by Rinaldo Walcott, a professor at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at University of Toronto. They talk about the university as a site of struggle, the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) industry, private property, and the connections between the three.<br /><br />Professor Walcott’s research is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality. He is the author of several books on these topics including BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom with Idil Abdillahi, Queer Returns: Essays On Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies, and Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada. His latest book is called On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition. You can follow him on Twitter @blacklikewho<br /><br />Professor Walcott’s latest book, On Property:<br /><a href="http://biblioasis.com/shop/new-release/on-property/" rel="noopener">http://biblioasis.com/shop/new-release/on-property/</a><br /><br />Professor Walcott’s Essay “The End of Diversity”<br /><a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture/article-abstract/31/2/393/138418/The-End-of-Diversity" rel="noopener">https://read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture/article-abstract/31/2/393/138418/The-End-of-Diversity</a><br /><br />Robin D. G. Kelley’s essay “Black Study, Black Struggle”<br /><a href="https://bostonreview.net/forum/robin-d-g-kelley-black-study-black-struggle" rel="noopener">https://bostonreview.net/forum/robin-d-g-kelley-black-study-black-struggle</a><br /><br />“'Humiliating': Black uOttawa student handcuffed in campus carding incident”<br /><a href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/humiliating-black-uottawa-student-cuffed-in-campus-carding-incident" rel="noopener">https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/humiliating-black-uottawa-student-cuffed-in-campus-carding-incident</a><br /><br />Intro music 'The Housewife's Lament' was written in the 1850s by Sara Price, an American woman. Boo Watson, a member of