It is my honour today to give space here on the Thrive In Chaos blog for a short statement from the Women’s Equality Party Race Equality Allies group. I have been working with the group for just shy of a year and we have learned so much in that time. We have worked together under [...]
Last year saw many people suddenly start to pay attention to extent of racism and white supremacy in our society and the damage it has wrought, and facing a reckoning with the role we ourselves have played in upholding and perpetuating these harmful systems. In June, I wrote this post sharing my first clumsy steps [...]
Buckle up, folks - this is going to be a long, uncomfortable one. George Floyd.Breonna Taylor.Ahmaud Arbery.Sean Reed.Tony McDade. These are just a few Black Americans who have been murdered in recent weeks and months at the hands of those empowered by systemic racism in America. This is just the tip of the iceberg of oppression, [...]
i'm pretty sureyou have s t a r d u s t runningthroughthose v e i n s- women are some kind of magicAmanda Lovelace There's something about women. Something that keeps us fighting when the battle seems lost, hoping when there seems no room for hope, banding together when the world would tear us [...]
There are just so many people who I want to thank and recognise for their support, encouragement and inspiration in my life but if I try and list everyone this is going to end up being a ridiculously long post. So I'm just going to stick with four people. Four people who inspire me every [...]
Happy International Women's Day lovely people. I'm hoping to post a few things today about the incredible women (and men) in my life who have inspired and supported me, and who have always stood up for gender equality, as well as some of the excellent events that are going on for you to take part [...]
Reading this post over at Midlands Musings, really made me stop and think. It seems that feminism has had a lot of bad press lately. There are too many misconceptions that miss the fact that feminism is a striving for equality. It is not (or certainly not meant to be) about hate. The ABSA Where [...]
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