Layla Saad

Me and White Supremacy started as a free Instagram challenge in 2018: twenty-eight days of prompts asking white readers to examine their own behaviour in writing rather than to discuss the subject in the abstract. Layla Saad is British-born of East African and Middle Eastern parentage and has lived in Qatar. The method is the argument: no reading list, no history lecture, a daily question and a demand that the reader write the answer down. Critics of the book say a personal inventory is not the same as changing anything institutional, which Saad has never disputed; her case is that the inventory has to come first. She followed it with the podcast Good Ancestor and a book of that name.