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Shades of Noir champions social justice pedagogy and develops practices which centers the voice of the marginalised in the arts, culture and higher education for equality, cultural capital and the aknowlegment of those who came before.

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About Shades of Noir

In 2009 Shades of Noir (SoN) was created by Aisha Richards.  SoN is an independent program that supports:

  • Curriculum design
  • Pedagogies of social justice through representation
  • Cultural currency
  • Accessible knowledge

Additionally, it has created physical safe spaces that offer opportunities to have critical and interdisciplinary discussions that confront some of the items that we see and do that can sometimes be challenging. This is a program that creates opportunities for marginalised groups and their need for safe spaces to articulate self-determination and liberate the struggles from oppressive structures both in education and society.

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Our Framework

Representation.

Build capacity at all levels of society for marginal communities to grow, thrive and support others.

Remuneration.

Support financial liberation for marginal communities to grow, thrive and support others.

Reparation.

Action approaches making amends for the wrongs done to marginal communities to grow, thrive and support others.

Reclamation.

Develop strategies to reduce erasure, misappropriation and or undervaluing theirstories/ herstories/ histories for marginal communities to grow, thrive and support others.

Redistribution.

Evolve practices to redeploy powers and privileges for marginal communities to grow, thrive and support others.

Our Partners

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