Support to develop your expertise around PMEL with creative examples and practical tips for adding these to your existing processes. I use participatory, decolonial, intersectional, and inclusive approaches.
You can download and start using everything today. These are practical tools for everyone. When I began my career, I couldn’t find the resources I was looking for at a reasonable price, written well, or informed by the real world and all its complexities. I want to correct that. PMEL is not one-size-fits-all, and that’s part of what makes it so interesting.
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Resource: Decolonising Philanthropy
Another trending thinkpiece in the philanthropy space is around the role of knowledge, who owns it and why, a brief history, and why philanthropy needs to do better. It’s written by former clients at FRIDA, whose expertise I know is as sound as their commitment to practicing these values.
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Resource: Inclusive Design and Accessibility
This post came up on my LinkedIn feed recently and I found it so useful. As Helana says, there are so few resources around which are valuable, updated, and free to access. We should all read these to become better at our inclusion and accessibility efforts. There are resources on colourism, region-specific inclusive design, biases,…
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Tool: Activist Self-Care
Before you start – no, sadly this is not a toolkit that will help activists to recharge or get their well-earned rest. It is however, the start of a conversation. This is purely for those moments of overwhelm that happen in our daily lives – conversations with colleagues, a news story, frustrating progress made in…
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Panel: LGBTQIA+ Anti-Racism
Last week, I spoke at another panel event for We Create Space. We explored anti-racism through an intersectional lens, in a panel with Yassine Senghor, Xaav, and Andre Johnsen. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to be vulnerable and share our biases and failings, since as we all know, every human is capable of…
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Resource: TAI MEL Handbook
I saw this handbook shared in a group recently and thought it would make a good resource, especially for those interested in a more circular, accountable framework. It’s written by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI), a donor collaborative that works towards citizen empowerment and responsive governance. I like how this framework follows an ecosystem…
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Seminar: Who am I?
Speaking at a seminar on how our individual identities intersect at work and help uncover the masks that prevent us from achieving authentic professional and personal fulfilment.
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Bond UK, Gatekeeping, and Performative Allyship
This is a long post, with a chronology of my experiences working directly with Bond. Read on for the irony of telling a UK-based organisation that words without actions are performative, that by gatekeeping based on race they’re building echo chambers of privilege, and that they need to do better, and all of this being…
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Resource: Equality vs Equity by Angus Maguire
I love to use this illustration by Angus Maguire – you will see it on my Pricing page too. It was commissioned some years ago by the Interaction Institute for Social Change and is shared freely and without written permission to reproduce it. Follow the link above to download a high resolution ZIP file with…
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