An honest reflection on the inevitably slow and uncomfortable journey towards equity in a community organisation

Some thoughts from Josephine Reichert, co-founder of Ort Gallery in Birmingham, about the sometimes painful (but ultimately rewarding) process of stepping back and making space.

“I had been holding up the ideals of professionalism and what it meant to be productive without realising that in doing so I had discriminated against someone whose life experience was so much different from mine that I could not see how my behaviour was racist.”

“The radical changes required to make a place of work equitable are actually tiny, even minute, but often they go so far against the status quo that they seem unsurmountable.”

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{Josephine was paid a fee by RadHR to write this article}

Picture credit: Anisa Fazal