Our beliefs

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We believe in true diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation. Real change, and not just empty promises. Real stories that are written by, and relevant to Black people, people of colour, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, people who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ umbrella and beyond, people who are non-binary, Muslim people and those attacked because of their religious beliefs, people from marginalised groups, and people who have been ‘boxed up’. 

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A publication with people at the heart of its business 

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This publication is a statement, and is for:

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• People who are singled out, treated unequally, looked at as ‘different’, and victims of systemic racism and discrimination

• People who are rejected by society for their physical or behavioural characteristics

• People who are stigmatised for their religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation

• People who live in a society that doesn’t accept them

• People who can’t express themselves freely in fear of oppression

• People at the intersection, who face disadvantage because of their ethnicity, religious beliefs, age, class or gender, or all of the above

• People who’ve been told the colour of their skin is the problem

• People whose sexuality is challenged every day

• People who have been told they won’t be able to do any better

• People who are considered second class citizens because they don’t have the education or speak the local language, but are still being taken advantage of by the system

• People whose history is butchered to give the dominant group the upper hand

• People whose heritage is seen as insignificant

• People whose ethnicity is seen as a danger

• People whose culture has been and still is mocked, with no one to defend them

• People who are still facing social inequalities

• People who feel invisible because society doesn’t recognise them

• People who have been catcalled on the street

• People whose hair has been touched by strangers without permission

• People whose name has been mocked because it sounds ‘exotic’

• People who have been looked at suspiciously and treated like a threat because of their physical features or origins

• People who are attacked for loving someone of the same sex

• People who never know if they’ll be able to make it home because the elevator is broken

• People who were told they asked for it for wearing too little clothes 

• People who still have to deal with their trauma

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People who know reverse racism is a myth. That Black privilege doesn’t exist. That same-sex people deserve better than a ‘civil union’. That it has never been more crucial to say ‘no more’.