Category: Resources
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Resource: Transformative DEI Capability Maturity Model
Introduction Most organisational DEI efforts plateau at performative compliance or incremental change, keeping the status quo and still actively harming or excluding the most marginalised. This presentation inverts the traditional DEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) by positioning transformational thinking not as an unreachable endpoint, but as the foundation from which authentic change must begin. Use…
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Civility
This is the comic drawn by #drawninpowerpoint in 2018. alt-text: A comic with three panels top to bottom. In the left side of each panel is a generic stick figure character and on the right of each panel is a character in KKK costume. In the first / top panel, the KKK character says “Death…
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Street Art on Child Labour in front of Apple store (Madrid, Spain).
Street Art on Child Labour in front of Apple store (Madrid, Spain). Eduardo Relero also did this drawing for Amnesty Hannover of child labour in the extraction of Cobalt in Congo for the global manufacture of electric cars 👇🏿 alt-text: Street Art showing a drawing that looks like there is a mining pit in the…
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You worked hard for that cookie
alt-text: Rich white male with lots of cookies on his plate during at a table with a black immigrant and a white male worker with construction hat and high viz clothing. The white male worker has only one cookie on his plate and the immigrant doesn’t have a plate or a cookie. Rich man points…
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We need to elect Replublicans double standards Trump
Found via Linda Collins on Mastadon. Alt-text thanks to Cassandra: A one-panel cartoon. An angry man says to a skeptical woman: “We need to elect Republicans to keep our daughters safe from pervert men wearing wigs barging into women’s restrooms.” Behind them, Donald Trump, with his unnatural hair and pursed lips, walks into a room…
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18 ways you can you help as an individual right now
We have talked about the fact that systemic and subtle discrimination accumulates over time, and that the antidote for discrimination is opportunity and sharing power. So what can you do to help as an individual? We have 18 ways you can help as an individual right now without asking for anyone’s permission that will help create…
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The “Problem” Woman of Colour in NonProfit Organizations
This is an excellent resource to explain how the “problem” woman of colour is brought in and then exits a non-profit organisation. But this can be the same for any organisation. alt-text: Title is The “Problem” Woman of Colour in the Workplace. COCo logo in top left. Step 1 The Woman of Colour…
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10 key tips to make the recruitment process more inclusive
In February 2022, I worked with Open Life Science to help them recruit a person to fulfil two roles, a programme coordinator and a community researcher. You can read more about it via Extending Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion best-practice in recruitment for international not-for-profits. Overall this was a great experience to co-design with a progressive…
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Centering the most marginalised, creating safe spaces, and providing opportunities are the antidotes to discrimination
We have talked about the fact that systemic and subtle discrimination accumulates over time, so what is the antidote for that? There are three areas you should prioritise as antidotes: centering the most marginalised, creating safe spaces, and providing opportunities #1 – Centering the most marginalised When we share power and create safe spaces, we…
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Intersectionality increases the degree of difficulty
Intersectionality is belonging to more than one marginalised group. It means that you have more “areas” that can open you up for attack. Understanding the range of areas and the effects is key to being able to help. Intersectionality was originally coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1991 in her publication “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity…