What You Don’t See: the Education

This is not standard DEI. This is structural analysis delivered as education. Our courses  explore how cognition, history, and power shape how we understand identity, belonging, and meaning. They ask how stories, nations, and discriminatory ideologies are constructed, and how they can be unmade. See the courses below and get in touch to book: tellme@thetawia.com

Discrimination is not accidental. It is built through repetition, social reward, institutional power, and ordinary features of human cognition. This course explores how those systems are constructed, why they become automatic, and how they continue to shape institutions, politics, media, and everyday life.

This course builds on the above course by showing how cognition, narrative, and power combine to produce what comes to feel like common sense about identity and difference. It explores how, over two millennia of settlement, conquest, empire, and industrial modernity, Britain was shaped alongside enduring internal hierarchies of region, class, and identity. It examines how these histories became embedded in national identity and political life, and how they continue to shape contemporary understandings of nationhood and belonging, including in moments such as Brexit.

This course explores who has the right to tell a story, how that right is granted, and how narratives can be co-authored between subject and storyteller rather than extracted by the filmmaker alone. It challenges the ideology of extraction in documentary and storytelling practice, asking what it would mean for subjects to hold genuine authorship over their own representation, and how meaning changes when storytelling is shared rather than taken.