Using intersectionality to increase equity: Reflecting on lived experience

We are holding a workshop specifically for Black, Asian, and racially minoritized social care practitioners who have lived experience of being minoritised through racism and its intersection with other forms of oppression.

Intersectionality is a tool for analysing how different forms of oppression, inequality and disadvantage (e.g. ageism, racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, classism) interact and intersect to influence lived experiences (Bernard, 2020). This understanding offers a lens to see someone better and to offer better practice, both in practice and crucially in our working environments.

This workshop offers a space for people with practice and lived experience to reflect on the theory and evidence about what intersectionality offers, and to discuss the action that is needed to embed intersectionality within social care organisations and practice.