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@Nettleshippy @sprolliehouse Urmmmmm....no!! No awards, lanyards, flag days; just getting everyone understanding how the basics are done properly and when to seek other specialist help #SubstantiveNotPerformative
I do not rate days, weeks or months in aid of a cause. So I wish for #SubstantiveNotPerformative improvements in health care and employment support for those ( like me) who experience mental ill heath #WorldMentalHealthDay
This thread gives a strong insight into why “ awareness” days, weeks, months are now very poor #EDI initiatives as they don’t have the impact that other approaches can and even cause pushback #SubstantiveNotPerformative
We see many Orgs have updated their branding to celebrate Pride Month.
As they will, no doubt, be aware June also includes the following:
Child Safety Week
Diabetes Awareness Week
Carers Week
Loneliness Awareness Week
Drowning Prevention Week
Learning Disability Week
Cervical Screening Awareness Week
Deafblind Awareness Week
Children's Art Week
Alcohol Awareness Week
National Bereaved Parents Day
Samaritans Awareness Day
National Schizophrenia Awareness Day
National Patient Participation Week
Volunteers Week
Reserves Day
UK Clothing Poverty Awareness Week
We are sure this branding update isn't simply a cynical attempt to virtue signal & that they will also be acknowledging all of the other important days/weeks during June.
Please tag us into any you notice during June & we'll ask them.
Virtue signalling your support for one or two PCs is not how to properly do #EDI. That takes #SubstantiveNotPerformative evidence gathering; policy review and monitoring (and recognition that there is an ecosystem of nine PCs)
Proudly wearing my @UniofReading #RainbowLanyard today, as always.
Fortunately the self-proclaimed ‘minister for common sense’ has no jurisdiction here.
@wendymurp I dont mind a flag per se. It's when it is used as the EDI output I have more of a problem. EDI should be non-hierarchical and #SubstantiveNotPerformative
As a disabled person I dont want a flag. I want reasonable adjustments #SubstantiveNotPerformative
As per replies are shut off. I'd like to ask this hospital how they show support for people with a disability? Have they got a flag to fly for that?
My regular reminder that I am against all flag days, months, days of visibility etc for protected characteristics as they encourage hierarchy approach of lobbying for individual PCs when we need an equality ecosystem approach where every PC considered #SubstantiveNotPerformative
My usual( but today very cold ridden) disclaimer. I don’t do #EDI flagdays. Want 365 not 1 day EDI #SubstantiveNotPerformative. But for those who do, happy #IWD
Starting to think there should be an annual award ceremony for most patronizing and counterproductive #EDI initiative #SubstantiveNotPerformative
@AvantiWestCoast the menopause is debilitating for some women, it’s not a joke. Rather than handing out insulting gimmicks to female employees you’d be better placed developing workplace policies and procedures that value and support peri-menopausal and menopausal women!
A classic thread example of how politicians and organisations can too easily move away from substantive responses like active monitoring to the merely performative #Maaate campaign #SubstantiveNotPerformative
When I was Co-chair of the Mayor's VAWG Board, back in about 2014, we introduced a dashboard that showed monthly and annual totals of rapes, SSOs and DV reports to the Met police. It showed rising numbers, as you would expect.
Problem has been that "inclusive" has been interpreted by too many decision makers as only considering the needs of those whose lobby groups have privileged access (like the CEO of Stonewall had with @ONS. #SubstantiveNotPerformative equality means balancing the needs of all.
Who could have foreseen that some populations would find middle-class gender gibberish harder to understand than others? Not the Office For National Statistics, apparently.
This is my regular statement that I dont care for flag days or months for any cause. Mostly, they are tokenistic advertising fluff, as aim for and achieve nothing sustainable. Good equality, diversity and inclusion is #SubstantiveNotPerformative #IWD23 #IWD
@sleeepysandy I am all for this - try and get that hashtag trending on IWD? I'm sick of the flags, social media bleating, and utter lack of anything substantive behind it all
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#SubstantiveNotPerformative. Pay women properly, allow us equality. We don’t want your bloody flags and adverts. #IWD2023
@Cyclefree2 @sleeepysandy @mcdonnelljp @francesweetman Yes, I love the Gender Pay Gap Bot, tweeting reality in response to performative social media bullshit, especially on IWD
Why isn't this scandal the number one equality priority for financial institutions, like @LloydsBank to fix. Or are flag days just easier? #SubstantiveNotPerformative
Policy makers: there are no shortcuts to Equality Impact Assessments. Assuming you know impact of proposed policy on a community, by only asking lobbying groups or self-appointed leaders is wrong. There is likely to different needs within communities #SubstantiveNotPerformative
Policy makers: How can you call any policy "inclusive" if it means some groups can no longer participate? Do you even think about those groups and why that is the case? And just accusing them of bigotry maybe itself be unlawful #SubstantiveNotPerformative
Day 1 of social media school for corporates needs to be dont virtue signal your Stonewall league table standing if you have a whacking great gender pay gap #SubstantiveNotPerformative
True E&D work is less about flags, lanyards and stunts. It is more about statistics, quality research, evidence gathering, wide consultation, policy drafting, training, evaluation and so on. Balancing competing rights. Not performative, substantive #SubstantiveNotPerformative
It is another example where we need #SubstantiveNotPerformative social action. Too many middle-class activists (as well as opportunist politicians) like the theatre and soundbites of handouts, rather than the hard, slow grind of policy or legal work to address substantive change
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