Just watched an incredible documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS8SpwioZ4
So glad to have found it after missing it when it came out in 2020. Deeply deeply recommended!
My uncle Greg Sanders isn't in the film, but he was part of the section 504 protests in San Francisco and a key member of the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley. Ordinary people change the world.
This short video about autistic burnout was shared with me on tiktok.
Spot on, I thought 
#LateDiagnosedAutistic #Intersectionality #gender #Racism #Burnout #AutisticBurnout
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 6 / EVEN FURTHER BEYOND continued)
26. Practical Tools for the Delivery of Equality and Diversity https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/practical-tools-for-the-delivery-of-equality-and-diversity.html
27. Sports and Community Clubs Induction Pack https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/sports-and-community-clubs-induction-pack.html
28. Building Equality into the Curriculum https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/building-equality-into-the-curriculum.html
29. Equality and Diversity Toolkit for Local Authorities https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/equality-and-diversity-toolkit-for-local-authorities.html
30. Managing Diversity and Inclusion in the NHS https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/managing-diversity-and-inclusion-in-the-nhs-p35.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 5 / further beyond continued)
20. Let's Talk about Race [baby!] resources https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/lets-talk-about-racism.html
21. Allyship: Supporting Black colleagues in the workplace https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/allyship-supporting-black-colleagues-in-the-workplace.html
22. Caring for Ethnically Diverse Children in Foster Care https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/caring-for-ethnically-diverse-children-in-foster-care.html
23. Managing and Avoiding Microaggressions in the Workplace https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/managing-and-avoiding-microaggressions-workplace.html
24. Practical Tools for the Delivery of Equality and Diversity https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/practical-tools-for-the-delivery-of-equality-and-diversity.html
25. Self-Assessment Toolkit https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/edi-self-assessment-toolkit.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 4 / beyond continued)
19. Neuro-Inclusive Workplace - Pocketbook;
Highway Code to Equality in Schools - Pocketbook;
Managing and Avoiding Unconscious Biases in the Workplace - Handbook;
Fostering Good Relations - Pocketbook;
Guide to being an Active Anti-Racism Bystander in the Workplace;
Foster Carers Race Awareness Pocketbook; Anti-Racist Strategies for the Workplace;
Cultural Competency Guidance and Activity Pack;
Navigating Racism in Schools Pocketbook;
Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in University Settings Pocketbook;
Embracing Cultural Competence in Healthcare;
Neurodiversity in the Workplace Pocketbook;
Communicating for Racial Justice Pocketbook;
Toolkit for addressing educational disadvantage for ethnically diverse children and young people in UK schools;
Navigating the Diversity Landscape Pocketbook;
Community-Led Housing in Ethnically Diverse Communities Toolkit;
Anger Management in the Workplace Pocketbook;
EDI Good Practice for Volunteers;
Addressing Bullying Allegations;
Board of Trustees Good Practice Guidance Pocketbook;
Cultural Competence in Public Services;
Understanding Microaggressions Pocketbook;
Creating Inclusive and Safe EDI Sessions;
White Privilege, Microaggressions and Intersectionality Pocket Book;
Reciprocal Mentoring Pocketbook;
Courageous Conversations on Anti-Racism in Schools;
Support document for Education Providers;
Preparing Apprenticeships for the Workplace;
Sexual Harassment Pocketbook;
The EDI Role in Shaping Organisational Culture, Performance, and Leadership;
Pocketbook for EDI Leads, Trainers, and Management;
EDI Bingo activities;
EDI Policies Guidance;
Healthy Relationships Pocketbook;
Community Impact Assessment Plain English;
Understanding Neurodiversity in Ethnically Diverse Communities Easy Read
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 3 / more continued)
15. Equality Act Good Practice Guide https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/equality-act-good-practice-guide.html
16. Creating Inclusive and Respectful Working Environments https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/creating-inclusive-and-respectful-working-environments-pocket-book.html
17. Recruitment and Selection: Guide for reaching and retaining diverse talent https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/recruitment-and-selection-guide-for-reaching-diverse-talent.html
18. Recruitment, Selection, and Inclusive Practices Pocketbook for Schools https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/recruitment-selection-and-inclusive-practices-pocketbook-for-schools.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist! (Part 2 / continued)
8. Definitions and Terminology Pocket Book https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/definitions-and-terminology-pocket-book.html
9. Gender Diversity Booklet https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/gender-diversity-booklet.html
10. Disability in Goods, Services, and Facilities https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/disability-in-goods-services-and-facilities-booklet.html
11. Unconscious Bias in Recruitment and Selection [Yes, I know being aware of biases does NOT erase them. Avowed racists can be aware of their biases, and avowed active anti-racists can also still struggle to counteract their upbringings. Still, it's a starting point.] https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/unconscious-bias-in-recruitment-and-selection.html
12. Unconscious Bias Case Studies [Yeah, this is a good next step: actually try to unpick barriers to common usage.] https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/unconscious-bias-case-studies.html
13. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Pocketbook for Airports https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/edi-pocketbook-for-airports.html
14. FE College - Managers, teachers and support staff Lesson Plan https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/edi-for-fe-colleges.html
If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all. Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay. Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
Omg yes?? https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/resources
Equality and Diversity UK resources / training Wishlist!
1. Looking at Learning and Development in a Different Way https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/looking-at-learning-and-development-in-a-different-way.html and
2. Courageous Conversations https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/courageous-conversations-game.html and
3. Everday EDI Good Practice for Freelance Artists https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/everyday-edi-good-practice-for-freelance-artists.html and
4. Reasonable Adjustments RAs Pocket Book https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/reasonable-adjustments-pocket-book.html and
5. Protected Characteristics Pocket Book https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/shop/protected-characteristic-pocket-books.html and
6. Mental Health First Aid Course https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/mental-health-first-aid-course.html and
7. Equality Impact Assessment Training https://equalityanddiversity.co.uk/equality-impact-assessment-training-course.htm
Obv more, but these are already kinda expensive. Shortlist time. If you're an ally to anyone else, please consider these resources too.
You might enjoy them, learn from them, share with others, practise with others, help someone else feel comfortable around you, disclose their own Protected Characteristics, or just... feel better about trying to help at all.
Baby steps in the face of overwhelm is okay.
Just start somewhere, wherever you can.
https://www.europesays.com/2206257/ Environmental racism in Brazil revealed #Brazil #ClimateJustice #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice #intersectionality #pollution #Quilombolas #RacialEquity #RacialJustice
In his foreword to Critical Romani Studies (Vol. 4, No. 1), guest editor Dezső Máté critiques the neglect of Romani LGBTI and feminist voices. The issue spans art, literature, and politics.
https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v4i1.150
Full issue accessible at https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v4i1
In Queer Roma (Routledge, open access), Lucie Fremlová explores how anti-Gypsism shapes queer Roma identities, using personal stories to challenge myths of compulsory heterosexuality, homophobia, and Roma sexual backwardness. @InclusiveLucie
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822699
#pride #pridemonth #intersectionality #roma #romani #RomaniStudies #lgbtq #queer #lgbtqiaplus #lgbtqiap #LGBTQIApride
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#YESquote: You Exist Too Much / Zaina Arafat - "It’s the idiosyncrasies of #culture that keep me an outsider & leave me w/ a persistent & pervasive sense of #otherness, of #non-belonging." #Pride #DiasporaVoices #Intersectionality #CulturalDisplacement
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@kylie.brewer Any trend that REINFORCES a social hierarchy is fascist… All human beings are equal! There is NO “natural order” where man is on top, wh!te people govern, etc. Stop falling for this
#stopfascism #leftist #humanrights #antiracism #intersectionality #ushistory #lgbt
Too many people focus on the minutia of WHY someone gets detained by ICE. Were they here illegally? Did they break the law? What did they do wrong?
They legitimize the horrors ICE perpetrates by insinuating if a person has done one of those things, they “deserve” it.
No one deserves this.
My latest article is about why we undervalue disabled lives, but I believe the themes apply to all marginalized people.
This is a powerful moment for intersectionality.
A chance for us to work together & fight systems of oppression that have caused harm since the dawn of time
No one is expendable:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-do-we-undervalue-the-lives-of
This week is National Nursing Week, and yet we can do better in advocating for structural changes that empower nurses. Click the link in our bio to read the latest blog post written by our primary investigator, Dr. Tara Horrill, and her reflections on nursing week 2025!
Huge thanks to Dinux for donating a canopy to The Genital Autonomy Collective! 
This increases accessibility tabling at events like Pride to raise awareness for Hadachek v. Oregon, a case fighting to expand the genital cutting ban to all children, including circumcision of those assigned male at birth and intersex kids.
This case has deep implications for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse folks. Our shared fight is for *intersectional* bodily autonomy, and Oregonians have a unique chance to lead the way.
GAC offers uniquely intersectional advocacy opportunities and support groups for those impacted:
https://autonomycollective.org/groups.html
I’ll also be using the canopy for local mutual aid when not tabling. Thank you again for supporting this work!
#genitalautonomy #intactivism
#intersex #trans #transgender
#CGM #MGM #IGM
#FGM #genitalintegrity
#circumcision #intactglobal2025 #intactglobal #hadachekvoregon #GAC #bodilyautonomy #childgenitalcutting #cgc #mgc #fgc #igc #genitalautonomycollective #genderdiverse #intersectionality #activism #oregon #portland #pnw #Pride #pride2025 #mutualaid
At a local café and the staff were talking in support about Hadachek v. Oregon and Intact Global's challenge to expand protection from child genital cutting to all children including preventing circumcision of boys and intersex surgeries.
People are talking in support of genital autonomy this is not a fringe issue, less than 1 in 10 children are genitally cut in Oregon, and Oregonians are happy to fight for the rights of all children!
Exerpt from my speech:
"I’ve been speaking up against child genital cutting for almost a decade with limited success until I moved here. Portland, Oregon really became my home because we also talk to neighbors here, and we know them. We know that they’re exceptionally diverse, and I believe we’re proud to fight for human rights because we know that. [Pause]
Many people assume that I was not affected by childhood genital cutting, but childhood genital cutting, including circumcision, affects more than just boys and men."
Alliana,
Founder of the Genital Autonomy Collective
#genitalautonomy #intactivism #intersex #trans #transqender #CGM #MGM ##GM
#FGM #genitalintegrity
#circumcision #intactglobal2025 #intactalobal #hadachekvoreqon #GAC #bodilyautonomy #childgenitalcutting #cgc #mgc #fgc #igc
#genitalautonomycollective #aenderdiverse #intersectionality #activism #oregon #portland #pnw #cascadia #pacificnorthwest
# Hadachek v. Oregon Intact Global 2025 Press Conference
Please let me know if you find more news coverage on this. We at the Genital Autonomy Collective spoke about intersectionality at the Intact Global 2025 press conference and hopefully some of the news will also mention that. The Hadacheck v. Oregon case will expand opportunities for trans, intersex, and gender diverse people in ways that more people need to be aware of. Circumcision impacts gender affirming surgery options, and impacts our freedom as well, and we're fighting with the broader genital autonomy movement for our shared rights.
An excerpt from my speech:
"Genital cutting is often talked about in the categories of male, female, and intersex, but those categories are not distinct in reality. People inherently defy those arbitrary boundaries. Because of this, many of the children assigned male at birth and subjected to penile circumcision, or other childhood genital cutting, are transgender, intersex, and otherwise gender-diverse
... Circumcision, by removing genital tissue and creating scars, physically limits options for adults seeking genital surgery. This stands in the way of our freedom to make the choice for ourselves as adults just like it does for boys and men. We are working with the intactivist movement for our shared freedom." https://www.youtube.com/live/S4-Cva6dVu4?si=uO4-J9OzUMfypDZD&t=5127
With attention and advocacy opportunities the challenge is bringing, The Genital Autonomy Collective is in need of more volunteers to help. Please message me if you're interested in supporting intersectional genital autonomy for all children in Oregon. While we welcome help of all kinds, we specifically need help with: Graphic design, web design, contacts with press, fundraising, social media management, writing, non profit experience, academic research opportunities, tabling events, etc.
Intact Global is also looking for Intersex plaintiffs who have experienced Intersex related genital cutting in Oregon at any date to add to the Equal Protection Challenge against forced, non-religious genital mutilation. As well as trans plaintiffs who have experienced penile circumcision in Oregon to add to the legal challenge.
Please email me at Allie@autonomycollective.org if you'd like to come forward as a plaintiff or are interested in volunteering. If you're in need of support on violated genital autonomy or would like to help advocate you can join a group at our website: https://autonomycollective.org/groups.html
Alliana,
Founder of the Genital Autonomy Collective
#genitalautonomy #intactivism
#intersex #trans #transgender
#CGM #MGM #IGM
#FGM #genitalintegrity
#circumcision #intactglobal2025 #intactglobal #hadachekvoregon #GAC #bodilyautonomy #childgenitalcutting #cgc #mgc #fgc #igc #genitalautonomycollective #genderdiverse #intersectionality #activism #oregon #portland #pnw #cascadia
in my opinion, there are 2 key takeaways from 'white fragility' by robin diangelo:
1. racism is not an ‘either / or’ binary but rather a continuum &
2. the challenge is to accept and grapple with this truth.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/
#book #books #bookstodon
#nonfiction #reading #amreading #read #review #bookreview #bookrecommendation
