Campaigners, We Need to Talk about the Importance of Intersectionality
By ensuring our equality is also accessible and intersectional, we ensure that all voices can be heard and all problems can have a solution.
Wanda’s Story – From working class to middle class
Listen to The Equality Trust Executive Director Wanda Wyporska’s story of class and inequality in the UK.
Navigating Covid as a Small Business Owner
Graham’s story of life during COVID as the owner of a gym in Glasgow
Why Wigan Council has made it their own responsibility to consider poverty
As charities, ‘Just Fair’ and The Equality Trust continue to campaign for the socio-economic duty to be included in the UK’s equalities legislation, some public bodies, including Wigan Council, are taking matters into their own hands.
(Un)Equal Pay 2.0: The lived experience with Sophia Moreau
Episode 4 of The Equality Trust Podcast #InequalityBites.
The Man
Stephen Armstrong, who is studying BA (Hons) Education Studies in MSc Inequality and Society, tells us about the man
Physically proximate, but economically remote: gentrification in Hackney
Luke Billingham takes us on a tour of Hackney and its inequality.
Once upon a time of austerity in the Midlands
A journey through Northampton and the austerity that has crushed it.
Home
“It’s hard to think of anything better calculated to exacerbate all your insecurities about whether you appear as successful or as a failure, interesting or dull, clever or stupid, well-educated or ignorant, than being ranked by class”—The Inner Level.
“I thought I was the only one that suffered”
A video from the workers of the UK.
Fighting inequality in the UK
Fighting inequality in the UK follows the stories of three activists: Hannah, an 18-year-old Muslim woman from Acton, West London; Aisling, a Brighton-based activist organising around the housing and homelessness crisis in the city; Tracey, a community worker supporting local people in Teesside to take local action and campaign for economic and social justice. The UK is the world’sContinue reading “Fighting inequality in the UK”
Inequality is racism
“You’re living in a block, but down there you can see nice houses … when you peep outside your window you just see people living lavish, living better than you.” Hannah Haji, a young Muslim woman in London talks about the impact of gentrification and “regeneration” in London, and how London’s current housing crisis isContinue reading “Inequality is racism”
Balance #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
For the last day of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we’re sharing this powerful animation in which Katherine, Simon, Martin and Muna explore what a fair and equal world would look like to them, and what it would mean for health and happiness. Accompanied by beautiful animation from Yujie Xu. A massive thank you to Yujie Xu, Cate LattoContinue reading “Balance #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek”
“Did your parents buy your house off Mrs Thatcher?” and other degrading comments
A long read exploring the differences between material poverty and perceived cultural inequalities, and how the author began to recognise the impact of inequality on her self-esteem whilst at university. I grew up in Tottenham, North London for the first 18 years of my life as a very conscious and progressive child and teen. IContinue reading ““Did your parents buy your house off Mrs Thatcher?” and other degrading comments”
“I want to live in a world that works for everyone”
Tom, Marion and Cleona discuss the ways in which inequality affects them, exploring mental health, status anxiety, community cohesion, poverty, dignity, consumerism and human value.
How understanding inequality explained my mental distress
The following is a poignant and insightful blog from Georgina, about the strong resonances she found when reading The Inner Level, the 2018 book from Professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett following on from their acclaimed work The Spirit Level. When I read The Inner Level I was struck in a way I haven’t feltContinue reading “How understanding inequality explained my mental distress”
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