In this video, Asif Afridi, Deputy CEO of Birmingham-based
equalities and racial justice organisation brap
reflects on the utility of the report’s framework for thinking about applying
intersectionality. Yet he notes that more needs to be done than simply think
differently about intersectionality; we need to better understand systems of
power and oppression and our own roles in maintaining them, and how they can be
disrupted and transformed. He offers that intersectionality is not a substitute
for understanding how systems of oppression operate, and doing the work to be
an antiracist, feminist, and so on. He discusses how more needs to be done in
the UK to make the links between equalities, intersectionality and wider social
and climate justice issues, and to build relationships across these.