Meet Splang!, a group using Scottish Gaelic to fight white supremacy

Jan 3, 2022

In Scottish Gaelic, the word splang means flash or spark.

When Andy Dahmer created a group with that name, he wanted to cause a spark of his own. Once against racism.

The creation of “Splang!” came about while Dahmer and his wife and co-founder, Dhanya Barid, were pursuing Celtic studies in Edinburgh and saw something concerning happening with people’s use of Celtic culture and symbolism.

“We’ve both been somewhat horrified by the number of Celtic groups that exist outside of academia that are very much racist groups and that use Celtic imagery and those sorts of things to those sorts of purposes,” Barid said. “We wanted to be part of a group that has the opposite goals.”

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