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Today is world disability day. A day that aims to promote the rights and well-being of disabled folks in all spheres of society and development.
How is your workplace ensuring equity for everyone? What barriers are preventing disabled folks from being colleagues or clients?
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November 25th marked the start of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. ⁠
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To end violence against women and girls (VAWG), we must tackle it at every level of society. Learn more at www.equalityinstitute.org⁠
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Diagram based on the socio-ecological model of VAWG developed by Lori Heise (1998).

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What is Empathy? This description by Brene Brown is particularly accurate at the end and that is too often absent from how we communicate with one another now, especially when it comes to how we experience world events differently.

Nothing has amplified this more than social conditions such as Police brutality and community harassment of Black and Indigenous people, Covid19, and most recently the Queen passing. How we interpret the same things depends on our orientation to the issue and our points of reference. Our points of reference come from our history with something.

It's not that hard for people to sympathize, but empathy is a struggle for a lot of peoole because of the believability factor. We just find it hard to reconcile what we're hearing with our historical relation to the same facts.

We both know there is a sky above. That is a fact we can all agree on, but we see different shades of blue and don't believe what the other person sees because our experience looking at the same sky is different.