Roger Brewis shares insights in his own words

In the 1970s, when I was in my twenties, I became involved in counter-culture and it expanded my mind – and all without the consumption of ‘interesting substances’. I get high on learning and knowledge. I learnt about power structures in our society, and others’ too. I learnt about disadvantaged groups and how those inequalities were maintained.Long before the word became un/fashionable, I woke to the ways of bias and unfairness in language, laws and social structures.I was born in a time when only white men read the TV news.

The problems were glaring once pointed out. I was strongly supportive of women’s rights, black rights and gay rights, despite being none of these. If you cared about people, rather than merely those you know and understand, these positions were unavoidable. I still f