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regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

Yo, who's accepting speculative CVs?

Worked in arts 10+ years. I'm an EDI, inclusion & wellbeing facilitator, specialising in supporting orgs to establish robust, intersectional & authentic access & inclusion policies & engagement initiatives. Background is PR and comms & I've lots of board exp.

For #WorldTheatreDay, here's something I wrote a while ago.

Originally commissioned by Culture Counts and Equal Media and Culture Centre for Scotland, with support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, it was written in response to the theme 'Dreaming of a Fairer Future for Culture'.

Part 1 of 2.

Part 2 of 2

For #WorldTheatreDay, here's something I wrote a while ago.

Originally commissioned by Culture Counts and Equal Media and Culture Centre for Scotland, with support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, it was written in response to the theme 'Dreaming of a Fairer Future for Culture'.

Part 1 of 2.

(...obviously not preaching to 'merica, here...)

Please do also *pay* people to do 'EDI'/inclusion roles! Diversity at trustee level is crucial, but just seemingly prioritising diverse insight in unpaid positions is shallow & often abandons critical viewpoints from folk who sit at the intersection between working class & other marginalised groups.

T👏🏼H 👏🏼I 👏🏼S👏🏼

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

A gentle reminder that putting age limits on opportunities for 'emerging' artists is, among other things, super fucking classist.

Might swap out conman for trickster, Jen! Gives a certain mythological energy.

591 people murdered by Israel in 72 hours.

Men, women, children and babies. 591 innocent souls.

Murdered.

Didn't cry. Went dead well. Rewarded self with 6 pack of welsh cakes on train home. Now might cry due to sugar crash.

Genuinely gobsmacked by it. Such dangerous, irresponsible language, now more than ever. Clicks above all else, eh?

Hi quick question what the fuck is this headline?

Not to be that dickhead, but I wrote & proposed a policy regarding this YEARS ago and the theatre I was working with at the time said it was unnecessary. It isn't.

Platforming marginalised people without centring their safety & wellbeing isn't inclusive - it's performative. We can do better, pals.

HONESTLY.

Honestly a bit grossed out by the 'you/ your loved ones could become disabled, so we should care about disability rights' posts, you know. We should care about disability rights because there *are* disabled people. That should be all it takes.

See also 'what if that was your child getting bombed?'

One of those days where self care looks like me pressing my face into my dog's face & muttering 'you've no idea, do you? You don't even know what the word budget means. You don't know what countries or genders are or anything. You're so lucky. I wish I was you. Don't ever die.' while she just:

I ❤️ YOU.

Sorry, I know there's bigger shit happening, but at a time when safety feels so tenuous for so many, now more than ever we need play-houses to offer sanctuary to more people than just those who already know they belong.

Tidy the fuck up before you have people round your house.

Don't know how to do this? Pay people who do. You know who they are. You googled them so that you could reference them in your MYF applications.

While we're at it, if you're an org that's made a commitment to welcoming underrepresented folk into your building, in whatever capacity, you need to get supportive practices & policies in place first, to enable any engagement to be authentic, long term, safe and MUTUALLY beneficial. In short: