Is it bad that I feel my blood boil when I see equality drives that completely ignore the inequality that people in the #LivedExperienceProfessions face in the mental health organisations they work in. Imagine being in the intersection of being a Black, non-binary LXP? Your >
> experience of discrimination won’t even be registered. It won’t make the equality drive photos. Mad people, esp those who deign to be open about ourselves & champion Mad knowledge in Mental Health settings are actively held back, treated differently. Even LXPs with White Male >
> privilege are treated worse than their colleagues, paid less, exploited with no career opportunities. So heaven help our openly #Mad #LXP colleagues of colour, who are LGBTQ, with coexisting health conditions. Is it any coincidence that myself and my colleague - both with >
> Black & Mixed heritage, did not even register on the equality drives when workplace discrimination put us both back in the bin, at the same time? We truly do not matter. We are invisible. We are worth less. We are Mad, and audacious enough to be open about it. Things are >
> changing though. Our academics are researching and documenting it. Our artists are creating work about it. Our writers are writing newspaper articles, books. Our bloggers are blogging, our Tweeters are Tweeting. We need to ensure that amongst these protests that room is >
> made for our most unheard voices - in particular, our Black and Brown colleagues, who are the least represented in our profession. These are people who don’t even make the anti-racist campaigns... because they are Mad. They won’t be breaking the Band 8 ceiling in the NHS >
> because our Black & Brown #LXP colleagues are much less likely to be employed, let alone get past a Band 2 or 4. So where are we, in all our intersections - the openly Mad working in Mental Health services - in the equality drives? This is the real insanity & it’s not us 🤬🤬🤬
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