Black Lives Matter: Fez Sibanda and Holly Anderson-Whittaker

SHY Collective Article – Fez Sibanda and Holly Anderson-Whittaker

SHY Collective is a platform seeking to challenge educational and academic structures by making academic work more accessible. SHY was born out of conversations between friends Holly and Fez during the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, focused on reimagining the world in a moment of stillness and uncertainty.

Since then SHY have written for Sweet Thang Zine, Tough Cookie Zine and been part of discussions about challenging systems and structures.

Holly (she/they) works in the third sector and is passionate about anti-racist praxis, system change, and community organising. She believes knowledge is communal in that it emerges through relationship, experience, and collective memory, and that through centring care, another future is possible.

Fez (she/her) is a Doctoral researcher in Education. Her research focuses on the lived experience of Black Brit-ish academics working in Higher Education in England, unpacking our experiences in relation to discussions about coloniality in academia. She is inspired by anti-colonial and counter- hegemonic thought. Fez is also a committee member of Women of Colour Brighton, and centres community building as part of her anti-colonial work.

Fez Sibanda and Holly Anderson-Whittaker
Doctoral researcher & Anti-racist practitioner
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