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Queen of the New Year
Looking for hope in dark times
Passing the Baton and Sharing Power
As we enter the next phase of living with Covid-19, it’s been interesting to look back and reflect on what this time has revealed about the interplay between social change and power, particularly in London where I live and work, and where I am also a Lambeth councillor. In
Pride Month in a Plague Year
It’s a strange Pride Month this year. Instead of coming together in festivals, marches and celebrations during June and on into the summer, over 500 Prides around the world have been cancelled or postponed. Lesbians, gay men, bi, and transgender people the world over are reeling from the impacts
Charities Seem to be Failing at Change and Justice. So What’s the Point of Them?
I wrote this post with my colleague, Matthew Sherrington. It originally appeared in Third Sector Let us know what you think! There are moments when scales fall from eyes, and you start seeing things afresh, perhaps as they always were. Moments that become turning points. Covid 19 should be the
Trying to remain hopeful
Pride month, performative allyship, and baby cheeses
Exciting new equality, diversity and inclusion project news!
ChangeOut have been appointed to lead a partnership diversity and inclusivity review and we’re very excited to be embarking on this work. Co-operatives UK [https://www.uk.coop/], Locality [https://locality.org.uk/], Plunkett Foundation, [https://plunkett.co.uk/] and Power to Change [https://www.powertochange.org.uk/]share
"I know when to go out..."
Tools for anti-racists, Malcolm X in Smethwick, and lockdown birthdays
Brave new what?
I’ve been thinking about trees a lot recently and enjoying some of London’s rare trees from my desk via this this web site which launched this week. I’ve also been looking back at old travel photos to try to not mind that I’m going nowhere fast.
Different boats, same storm
Last year, I was honoured to be selected by the Runnymede Trust to join a project working on Reframing Race. It has been a humbling experience to be part of a team working to create narratives to change the conversation about race. If you believe, as I do, that racism
The garden of earthly delights
My annual purchase of gardening delights was thwarted by lockdown doom. Fortunately the garden centre came to me instead this week via Plant Savers. The Edelman Trust Barometer Spring update reported that 67% of respondents to their annual survey believe that those with less education, less money and fewer resources
