It is clear how ethnic disparities within the labour market are linked to other disparities in policy such as housing, and influenced by national crises such as the cost of living crisis. Issues within the labour market leads to wage disparity between minoritised communities and their White counterparts.
The Telling Stories event on 22nd November 2022, was a powerful, social and introspective conversation about the art of storytelling. I know this because I was there. It asked critical questions that were extremely thought-provoking about how the UnMuseum project (as it stands today with this name) will tell stories. But it was also a general conversation for storytellers in all modes and forms, as well as an educational one.
The Grenfell Tower tragedy of 2017 lifted the veil over the abundant problems in the Social Housing sector; where a resident warning about serious fire risk within the building was labelled a “troublemaker” by the housing management, and a year later, found himself having to escape with his life in a fire that caused 72 bereavements.
Ethnic minorities account for around 14 percent of the UK population (ONS, 2011) and while all British ethnic minority groups have made progress in employment, occupational mix, labour force participation and education relative to the white majority, ethnic minorities still do less well than most white people in most socioeconomic areas.
World Afro Day promotes education and appreciation for the unique position of afro hair, throughout the world and is a global day of change, education, and celebration of Afro hair, culture, and identity. In honour of this, our Creative Comms team has delved into their own hair stories, celebrating and sharing the good, the bad, and the relaxed!
As of now, one in six adults globally remains illiterate, unable to read or write. International Literacy Day aims to combat this through raising awareness and invigorating global citizens to act against illiteracy in all its forms – whether as remnants of imperialist ambitions, or a by-product of poverty and political corruption.
Women’s Equality Day, celebrated on the 26th August, commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting the right to vote to women. It is there to remind us of the hurdles overcome by hundreds of heroic women whose experienced inexplicable levels of discrimination.
The website in question was created as an integrated service from which the public can access government data on racial disparities in the UK.
As a woman of mixed Jamaican and English heritage, I, like many others around me have always struggled with appreciating my natural hair as well as understanding its versatility and uniqueness. It is believed that these self-criticisms stem back to colonialism, which changed the way Black people perceived and wore their hair…
Looking to the future, the collaborators of RACE hope to craft a Charter for Co-Production specific to anti-racist action. Such a charter will outline the values that underpin good, ethical, and equitable co-production. It will also provide a ‘toolkit’ that aims to guide community collaborators and researchers…
I started to get to know Roy more in the mid to late 2010s. It was the Bristol Black Archives Partnership, where members of the - African Caribbean community in Bristol were engaged to raise awareness of the Bristol Record Office and its role as keepers of the city story, in Archives - along with other Museums and Galleries in the Bristol Culture team of the City Council.
Part of our work to decolonise knowledge production includes building a charter for co-produced research. By de-centering Western perspectives and following organisations such as the Global Indigenous Data Collection, we as a coalition are breaking away from old practices and advocating for a new Charter which can offer practical guidance for other researchers wanting to do the same.
Queer existence is Political, and Art is Political. Queerness and Art are intertwined and inseparable. Art can be utilised to disarm the fixed categories of identity that are used to demarcate the boundaries of Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Art can be, and has been, utilised to make visible the nominally invisible – the Queer and Minoritised.
On the 25th of May 2020, 46-year-old George Floyd was pinned down and killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being accused of paying with a counterfeit $20 note. Floyd’s death sparked worldwide support for the #BlackLivesMatter campaign, as millions flocked to protest during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, between April and May 5% out of around 2.6 million adults said they felt lonely often or always. (Ons.Gov, 2020). Now in 2022, one in four adults feel lonely some of or all of the time (Mental Health Foundation, 2022). People from Black and Minoritised backgrounds are much more likely to experience loneliness and encounter issues around mental health because of significant inequalities mainly around employment, finances, and housing (Mind, 2020).
Stephen Lawrence was a Black British teenager who was stabbed to death by a gang of six white youths while waiting for a bus in Eltham on the evening of April 22nd, 1993. As we reflect on the what happened to Stephen Lawrence nearly 30 years ago, we must consider how far we have come and how much further we have still to go and acknowledge the role of every individual in driving real societal change and forging a space of inclusivity and equality.
