Thoughts on Wigan Diggers Festival
I was at the 7 th Annual Wigan Diggers Festival last weekend. This was my third time at the event. I enjoy the energy of these events, seeing politically active people is always a pleasure. However as a black person I feel like an oddity, dont get me wrong the festival is run by progressive, lefty, anti racist people. I share those political ideologies, but of late I have noticed how spaces such as this are almost always white. I am black, feminist, anti racist, lefty and Christian, I am an outsider in each of these groups because I don’t fit the norm of any of them. None of these groups are exclusive, far from it they are welcoming and all of them want to make a difference. However there are too many unspoken things which have caused us to alienate people we would like to reach out to. In left anti racist groups I am excluded on grounds of religion. My Christian faith is assumed to be at odds with liberal groups whose atheist worldview sees me as a brainwashe...