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discourses around the term 'mixed race', alienation from both/multiple parts of your identity, not being white enough, not being enough of a PoC

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eg Kamau Brathwaite's nation language

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Is this erasure of history? Or is it just expanding our understanding?

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The grants form part of a £1m 'Untold Stories' fund to help champion diversity in the city

Back in June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Mayor Sadiq Khan announced The Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. The initiative was founded to review and improve diversity and representation in public spaces across the capital, including statues and landmarks.

A little over a year on, a study (the first diligent one of its kind) has found that London has more statues of animals than it does of named women. The study also found that around 1 per cent of sculptures are dedicated to named people of colour, with just 0.2 per cent being named women of colour, as the Guardian has noted.

These (less than good) findings have prompted the mayor's office to announce a £1m fund to help kick-start actual change across the city where representation in public spaces is concerned for "Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, women, LGBTQ+ communities and disabled people" a statement says.

The initiative also extends to reviewing current landmarks, statues and street names across London, in a bid to decolonise the city we all live in together. As part of these efforts, grants of up to £25,000 are being made available for community-led groups that wish to remove and replace street names, building names, and memorials in their area that reference figures responsible for slavery and other events of oppression and colonialism.

The first round of Untold Stories grant applications opened on October 21 and will close on January 12, 2022. The applications are open to any Community-led organisations in London with a turnover of less than £500k. There will be a second round of funding in Spring next year. The form for applications can be found here.

In a statement on the launch of these grants, Khan has said "London's diversity is its greatest strength but for far too long our capital's statues, street names and buildings have only shown a limited perspective on our city's complex history." Adding that the fund will aim to "help the diverse communities who know our city best lead the way in celebrating our capital's Untold Stories."

The process of changing a street name includes gaining approval from more than 75 percent of the residents, a court proceeding, admin fees for emergency services and the royal mail, plus the cost of new signage and new memorials, all of which costs a fair bit of money.

Names of landmarks and streets have started to change in the last twelve months outside of this funding, including the Museum of the Home in Hoxton (which was formerly named after Sir Robert Geffrye who made at least part of his fortune as a result of transatlantic slavery), and Black Boy Road in Haringey.
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Sadiq Khan launches £25,000 grants to change offensive street names

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The grants form part of a £1m 'Untold Stories' fund to help champion diversity in the city Back in June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Mayor Sadiq Khan announced The Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.

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New Zealand Māori party launches petition to change country’s name to Aotearoa

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Party wants all original te reo Māori place names to be officially restored across the country in the next five years

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Codrington Library vs. All Souls Library vs. something in between

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Codrington Library vs. All Souls Library vs. something in between

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racism vs colourism and identifying as different things in different spaces
physical vs. cultural passing and the notion of the 'good' or palatable minority

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eg religion; appropriation or appreciation?
could drag race be an interesting case study?

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Ollie London, Rachel Dolezal and Transracialism

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Claiming identities that are not your own

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Claiming identities that are not your own

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Non-traditional vs traditional 'British' names

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Non-traditional vs traditional 'British' names

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WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it had issued the first American passport with an "X" gender marker, designed to give nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people a marker other than male or female on their travel document, according to a statement.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in June that the X marker would be offered as an option on passports, following other countries including Canada, Germany, Australia and India, which already offer a third gender on documents.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement that the United States was moving toward adding the "X" gender marker as an option for those applying for U.S. passports or Consular Reports of Birth Abroad.

Price did not identify the holder of the first "X" gender passport, but civil rights organization Lambda Legal said its client Dana Zzyym was the recipient.

"I almost burst into tears when I opened the envelope, pulled out my new passport, and saw the 'X' stamped boldly under 'sex,'" Zzyym, an intersex and nonbinary U.S. Navy veteran, said in a statement on Wednesday. "It took six years, but to have an accurate passport, one that doesn't force me to identify as male or female but recognizes I am neither, is liberating."

Zzyym, who uses gender-neutral pronouns "they," "them" and "their," was born with ambiguous sex characteristics. Lambda Legal said in the statement that Zzyym underwent several "irreversible, painful, and medically unnecessary surgeries" after their parents decided to raise them as a boy.

After serving in the U.S. Navy and attending Colorado State University, Zzyym came to understand they were born intersex, according to the statement.

Zzyym's previous applications for a passport were denied as they required the applicant to select either "male" or "female" as a gender marker.

"When you're denied the access to go places it feels like a prison," Zzyym said in a television interview on Wednesday. "I would really like to take a fishing trip down to like Costa Rica or Mexico or something ... So that's kind of like my first dream thing."

Reporting by Simon Lewis in Washington and Maria Caspani in New York Additional reporting by Mana Rabiee in Washington Editing by Steve Orlofsky and Matthew Lewis

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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U.S. issues first passport with 'X' gender marker

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The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it had issued the first American passport with an "X" gender marker, designed to give nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people a marker other than male or female on their travel document, according to a statement.

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