Amelia: We’ve seen radical transformation! That keeps me going. To break it down for people who might not be familiar with our terminology, we are doing anti-racist work, which is assuming a context of white body supremacy culture, yet it’s not just about race. The collective liberation we are steering organizations towards is not about “diversity and inclusion” and filling a quota of how many global majority people you’ve hired at your organization.

Can a Black girl be called “pale”? How about a Latina ? No matter how you parse the linguistic technicality, the word smacks of whiteness, said one of the actors. And so on Day Two of rehearsal at People’s Light in Malvern...

A guitarist in blood-red Chelsea boots strums a duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh as a front woman decked in Brit punk plaid struts to the front row and belts out: “We are The Preventers! And we are here to save youuuuuuuu!” The play is “Such Things as Vampires,” a musical adaptation