help us be ethical, not extractive
What if anti-racism solutions were built by the people most impacted?
We’ve just completed phase one of our Reclaiming Ourselves; Anti Racism (ROAR) program at university. The program responds to the findings of the Australian Human Rights Commission that 15% of students had experienced direct racism and only 11 of 42 Australian universities had an anti-racism strategy. Next comes the most important part, co-designing intersectional anti-oppressive solutions.
What is co-design?
It’s a way of creating programs, services, materials, or solutions with, and by the people they’re meant to support. Not just for them. It’s not just a method, it’s part of the impact.
That means young people with lived experience helping shape what gets built next.
But here’s the problem — too often, co-design relies on unpaid labour and lived experience that isn’t valued.
We’re doing things differently.
intertwine’s co-design means:
- Paying facilitators fairly
- Providing participant payments for young people
- Creating a process that is ethical, not extractive.
intertwine’s co-design means materials are co-owned by participants and intertwine, and any participant can implement a project idea or use it for a grant application.
That means young people from culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds co-designing, co-creating, and being able to implement ideas to address systemic racism at university. To empower young people to not only create the change, but lead the projects that come out of the co-design sessions.
Join us in helping raise $10,500 to support this work over the next six months, and bring two co-designed intersectional anti-racism initiatives — created by diverse young people from culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds — to life.
If you believe lived experience should be valued — this is worth backing.
Donations over $2 are tax-deductible.
Where your gift goes
When you contribute to ROAR, your gift becomes the cornerstone of transformative change for diverse young people. Your gift will go directly towards supporting our comprehensive program aimed at eliminating racism at universities, from the initial co-design workshops to implementing the ideas workshop participants develop.
This project is partially funded by the Victorian Government.
