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WhiteSpaces is a multidisciplinary globally connected initiative which aims to reframe understandings around supremacy, power, category, system, institutionalisation, oppression and domination so that these relations can be seen and exposed as real features of daily life. That is as constitutive of all of our lived realities, and everyday relationships in our institutional spaces whether these spaces are formal organisations or places of informal gathering or of collective public practices; and as constitutive of lived realities in the places we call home, in our family and friendship intimacies and the places we feel belonging as well as the places that we feel we don’t. WhiteSpaces achieves it's aims by creating opportunities to challenge received narratives about power and oppression. It does this through a range of activity which includes audio, digital and live events, writings and information curating. WhiteSpaces is challenging because it seeks to name and to rethink mainstream understandings and dominant narratives around power and inequality. But this challenge is undertaken in the spirit of generosity and openness to a range of points of view, experiences, communications and desires. It resists apportioning blame for inequality and social injustices. Instead WhiteSpaces uses challenging opportunities to promote generative possibility for developing collaborative responsibility through and alongside social difference. It does this in the belief that learning new things about ourselves and our own power works in the service of social change which holds human connection at its heart. WhiteSpaces makes connections between people, ideas, organisations and activities which rarely meet, believing in the capacity of relational practice to hold together the contradictions, the discomforts and the personal and intellectual challenges of this working with and through power.