Meeting for Sufferings: QLCC
'Inequalities are inherently interconnected.'
Klaus Huber, clerk of QLCC, then updated Friends on the group’s work encouraging reflection on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), which is sometimes run in collaboration with Woodbrooke Research and Learning. In particular, the group has been facilitating decolonisation within the centrally-managed work, he said, and supporting work with young people, especially in relation to trans-inclusion.
From a ‘thought-provoking’ session with Edwina Peart on her work as diversity officer, members ‘took away that inequalities are inherently interconnected’, he said. A later session with Kate McNally, from Belgium and Luxembourg YM, on anti-racism work, ‘very helpfully pointed out that it was a journey to becoming an anti-racist community, and we were all at different stages, and bridging together people who are at the same stage in a supportive environment could be an important step’. There have also been LM and AM events, such as Somerset AM, where Naomi Major did a workshop on reparations.
Oliver Robertson shared some of BYM’s work on EDI, with all staff undertaking a series of anti-racist training sessions. There are also networks for LGBT and BAME staff, he added, and a focus on children and young people programmes that look at equality and ‘working with young people who have a number of gender identities… welcoming people where they are now’.
The final minute noted: ‘The challenges that face the world outstrip our corporate capacity and it is laid upon each of us to rise to meet them.’
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