Roxy Legane
Roxy Legane is the founder of Kids of Colour, a Manchester-based project for young people of colour to challenge everyday and institutionalised racism. She is a steering group member of Northern Police Monitoring Project and recently completed a masters in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University. You can follow her work on Twitter at @RoxyLegane @KidsOfColourHQ
New in Ceasefire - Sunday, February 21, 2021 15:52 - 1 Comment
Comment | Dear Sadiq Khan, the last thing British schools need is more police
This week, London mayor Sadiq Khan became the latest politician to endorse greater police presence in British schools. This is a deeply misguided position, writes Roxy Legane.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, May 11, 2020 13:19 - 1 Comment
Comment | Nobody ‘deserves’ to be tasered
Last week, footage emerged of a father being tasered by police in front of his child. The mixed public reaction to the incident has been a reminder of how pervasive acceptance of 'justified' violence remains in Britain, writes Roxy Legane.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:22 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Covid-19 is hitting Britain’s BAME communities hardest
Whether as doctors, minimum-wage workers, or patients, the UK's BAME communities have been at the sharp end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Roxy Legane examines the racialised dimensions of a public health crisis.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 16:43 - 3 Comments
Analysis | Youth Violence: Britain’s schools need greater support and investment, not more policing
Plans for greater police presence in UK schools may prove electorally lucrative but are part of the problem. The normalisation of police presence in British schools will irreparably transform them from places of learning and growth into sites of hyper-surveillance and trauma, argue Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Roxy Legane.
