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Impact investment and diversity in the arts: Outlining the challenge I want to solve.

By Kevin Osborne on Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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Racial inequality in arts funding will not be resolved by grants alone. A BAME-led investment fund would be a pragmatic and transformative solution.

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A Personal reflection on getting old!

By Kevin Osborne on Saturday, January 16, 2021

My resistance to emerging social norms like gender fluidity makes me feel old. Attitudes have ingrained over the years and now seem stuck despite logic to the contrary. My kids have no such problem, their young brains adapt quickly. I increasingly feel on the wrong side of the saying: ‘you can’t teach an old dog …

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LETTER TO MY 16 YEAR OLD SELF

By Kevin Osborne on Friday, November 20, 2020

Dear 16 year old Kevin, It saddens me to think of you with the anxiety of any 16 year old trying to find themself, made a thousand times harder because who you are has been shaped by racism. It has become part of you. It runs so deep that you will learn to split your …

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Open Letter to Arts Council England

By Kevin Osborne on Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Dear Darren / Sir Nicholas, Arts Council England (ACE) has tried everything it can think of to improve diversity. The effort has been immense (this should be acknowledged) but the results, in your own words, have been ‘disappointing’. Your recent calls for the Arts Council to do better on racial inequality going forward are welcome. …

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Brief Encounter with a Homeless Refugee

By Kevin Osborne on Thursday, August 6, 2020

I’m walking down a busy west end street. In front of me a few yards ahead is a man, crouched on his feet, almost in a fetal position on the steps of a church. His right hand is rubbing his head. I intend to walk past, making the conscious decision not to look again, in …

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One Thing You Can Do To Reduce Racism

By Kevin Osborne on Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Through social media, people often ask me what they can do about racism.  There is no simple answer but certainly, it requires a deeper commitment than spending half an hour scrolling through your timeline on instagram. Racism is centuries old and so ingrained in society that many of us don’t know we are being racist …

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Systemic funding failures: it’s time to fix the fault lines

By Kevin Osborne on Sunday, August 2, 2020

To future-proof the creative sector we must root out systemic funding bias against BAME organisations starting with an equitable sharing of the £1.57 billion bailout package.

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Reflecting on the impact of MeWe360

By Kevin Osborne on Sunday, August 2, 2020

MeWe360 (‘MeWe’) is a not-for-profit organisation, set up to develop BAME entrepreneurs – and their enterprises – in the arts and creative industries. It was a project motivated by anguish and hope. Anguish, born of my frustration at the underachievement and under-representation of BAME leaders; and hope that, through MeWe, we can help unlock the …

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The Miseducation of a Generation*

By Kevin Osborne on Tuesday, July 7, 2020

There will be no social media storms about miseducation perpetrated by some teachers on black children and yet these acts have ripple effects on our community over many generations. Equal – and I’d say related– to the brutal violence perpetrated by our criminal justice system.

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What exposure do black children have to racist teachers?

By Kevin Osborne on Friday, June 26, 2020

To some extent, teachers inevitably reflect the breadth of attitudes in society, including those on race. Twenty-five per cent of the general public admit to having racist attitudes. Whilst this will likely be less amongst teachers, it is certain that some will also hold such views. But how many? And what exposure do black children …

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Kevin Osborne
Kevin Osborne

I am CEO of MeWe360, which champions BAME entrepreneurs in the arts and creative industries. My life's work has been an attempt to understand the nature of racism and to minimise its impacts on me and my community. Skin in the Game is a blog where I look at current affairs, popular culture and issues in society through the lens of race, identity and power. I want to show the many different ways racism is present in everyday life. I share my own story and my opinions (sometimes not fully formed) as a way to start conversations that will start to shine a light in the darkest corners where racism lives: in our hearts and minds.

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