I’m very excited to announce that The Other Checkbox podcast is Live! Listen now on Spotify! The Other Checkbox is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and me which explores London's other ethnic identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. The project idea was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. The Other Checkbox is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report.
You can learn more about the project on theothercheckbox.co.uk.
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