Tasneem’s Blog Archive
Cultural Competence in Council
This morning I conducted a training session on ‘Muslim Community Awareness and Cultural Competence’ for the City of Darebin executive. This was a robust and in depth analysis of the communal demographics, psycho social issues residents experience and the consequences...
Identity & Belonging 2020
This week I spoke at MacKillop College to their year 11 Cohort, navigating ‘Identity 2020’. My co-panelists included the fabulous Jane Gilmore and Nevo Zisin - between the three of us we traversed issues of gender, sexuality and race. Kudos to Jo Parker for curating...
Coming of Age Exhibition
Today I had the opportunity to participate in an upcoming exhibition for the Immigration Museum, called ‘Coming of Age’. Without giving away too much, it will celebrate stories of identity formation and ‘becoming an adult’ for Victorians from a diverse range of...
First ABC ‘The Drum’ Appearance of 2020
On my first ‘ABC The Drum’ of 2020, feeding in from Melbourne. Tonight: talking about what’s being done to prepare for job transitions in coal regions? What have other countries done to make the move away from mining. Has the coronavirus killed the cruise industry?...
Tasneem Chopra’s Australia Day Honour for promoting a diverse, inclusive community
An interview with the Bendigo Advertiser..my hometown newspaper. I remember the very first time I wrote a letter to their editor in high school, to complain about the insensitivity and waste of monies being splashed on a bicentennial re-enactmentof the first fleet....
Women of colour don’t lack agency or capability, we lack opportunity
Linked here is an SBS article from the archives, whose message bears repeating - Thankyou #SBSvoices
The Coffee Festivals of Jazan
Coffee trails to ponder.. definitely one to consider. Great piece by Prof. Saeed Khan..shifting the needle on what we thought we knew about the world’s premium coffee suppliers. See link:...
Sussan Diversity Campaign
Beautiful campaign from Sussan celebrating the real diversity of Australian women across dimensions. THIS is what inclusive marketing looks like... representing the world we live in 🌍💜🙌🏾
OAM Appreciation
I want to thank all of you who have messaged me from far and wide over the past few days for being awarded an OAM. When I arrived in Bendigo from Kenya (via Alice Springs) at the age of 5, my aspirations were far fetched for a little brown kid missing two front teeth,...