Launch of new Quaker equity network

'The equity network has grown out of Quaker work towards becoming an inclusive, welcoming church.'

A new Quaker equity network is to look at how differences, including those attributed to race, class, sex and neurodiversity, are interlinked, in order to build a better future.

Initiated by Edwina Peart, the inclusion and diversity coordinator at Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), the equity network has grown out of Quaker work towards becoming an inclusive, welcoming church. The network will meet three or four times a year and be made up of smaller networks examining various aspects of inequality, including homophobia, ageism and racism. The first meeting on 8 August will explore the intersection of racism and neurodiversity.

BYM said that all are welcome at the Zoom launch meeting on 8 August, from 11am to 1pm. It will include talks from the Quaker Disability Equality Group, as well as the new anti-racism group, which, according to Edwina Peart, is still ‘emerging’, with a meeting planned in September.

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