What is needed is a plan for radical change. A conscious effort to disrupt unequal power dynamics in your organisations. A plan to put strategic leadership in the hands of the communities with lived experience of the issues you work on. What we get is debates about civility.

These conversations are often just a distraction from the reality of racial injustice in our sector. Do the work of dismantling unequal power structures you benefit from, or get out of the way and invest in and support Black and brown people to drive forward change.

Happy Birthday to Emmett Till. He would've been 82 years old today. At just 14, two white men kidnapped and brutally murdered him through mutilation for 'whistling' at a white woman. decades later, Carolyn Bryant admitted to lying that Emmett Till made a pass at her. THREAD

🗣️Part of my job is working with POC in #globaldev. It always brings me such joy to share spaces with incredibly talented, kind and wise people. We came together to write something, have a read: bond.org.uk/news/2023/08/t… Bond #antiracism

Few things we need to keep speaking about, no particular order: 1. State sanctioned violence & mainstream media facilitation 2. Desirability & colourism; who is platformed & legitimised 3. Safety of (in)visibilised movement workers 4. The people: Palestine, Sudan, and and...

"When the veil is lifted, and we understand the power dynamics happening in front of us, we cannot hide from the injustices and disparities that we see." Great stuff from Lena 🧘🏽‍♀️🤹🏽‍♀️ of Bond on the #ShiftThePower Global Summit.

We're also very excited that Kadra Abdinasir from Centre for Mental Health, Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition and #CharitySoWhite is bringing her wealth of knowledge and experience to the team #Quality2024

📢 Expanding and diversifying the mental health workforce is crucial to meet growing levels of need. Drawing from a roundtable we hosted with Mental Health Network & Mind, we've explored what's needed to build a #MentalHealthWorkforce for the future: centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/b…

I returned to work yesterday after a fortnight of sick leave for a severe depressive episode that I insisted on working through for 2 months, bc like many with lifelong mental illness, I'd internalised the kind of rotten stigma driving these cruel, dangerous policy choices👇🏾

A few of us working in and around Black mental health have been working behind the scenes on a new Black Mental Health Manifesto. Today is finally launch day ✊🏾 Follow Black Mental Health Manifesto to find out more later this morning. #ProtectBlackMentalHealth independent.co.uk/news/uk/coalit…

A charity leader said the n word, in full, hard r, whilst leading a session on diversity. She said the n-word to illustrate why staff shouldn’t say queer. The charity defended and excused her actions. Our full response in the 🧵👇🏽

It is wild that in 2024 we are talking about why it is unacceptable for a leader in the charity sector to use the n word. Even the most obviously hurtful and dehumanising of racist slurs like this are excused and defended by charities.

Time and time again, we see charity leaders go to extraordinary lengths to shift the goal-posts of “acceptable behaviour” and infantilise themselves to avoid anti-racist accountability.

We know how hard it is for a POC to speak up when they’ve been victims of racist abuse at work. But often the politeness politics of charity sector brands those that speak up as trouble makers, and excuses perpetrators by claiming that they didn’t mean it or had good intentions.

We won’t have true justice or accountability until charities fully acknowledge how deep racism cuts and recognise that the starting point should not be the impossible burden of proof demanded of those experiencing racism.

Charities need to recommit to and actively root racism out of their organisations, because they have the power to make this change. END

We are TUNED IN 🎙️ Listen to the tracklist for #DeadpoolAndWolverine on the Deadpool Official Playlist, only on Spotify. Get tickets to see the film in theaters July 26: Fandango.com/DeadpoolAndWol…

Dear white people. Respectfully, please have a word with those other white people who are beginning to make me feel unwanted in the country of my birth. Don't be silent.

To every charity that put out BLM statements or participated in black square summer, your silence right now as racist violence targets Black and brown communities is deafening. Speak out. Support your racialised staff. Work towards dismantling systemic racist oppression.

🗣️Racial injustice and socio-economic inequality are inseparable. Marginalised communities face multiple barriers and systemic exclusion, cycles we must break to achieve real change. 2024 reminded us that these issues won’t resolve themselves. #Justice #AntiRacism #Solidarity