Embodied Activism

When clients ask about my politics and activism, I find it difficult to put into words — because it's how I live and breathe. As a marginalised person, I am activism embodied.

I don't champion specific causes because they all intersect. Trans rights, racial justice, disability justice, mental health reform, — these aren't separate struggles. Human rights and equality demand all of them, simultaneously. I do not believe there is a future without social reform. I do not believe there is a future for us if not all of us can have the quality of life we deserve.

It is inhumane that the greed of rich, white, racist cisgender men has created relative poverty on our very doorstep — and that those same systems leave working-class and marginalised communities around the world, bearing the weight of a climate crisis they did not create.

This is why, within my practice, I personally prioritise Black and Brown, LGBTQIA+, and disabled clients.

I also want to name Palestine explicitly. What we are witnessing is years of Western complicity in genocide — and my heart is both full of the movement for freedom and heavy with the punishment so many of us face simply for speaking up. Liberation is not selective. Free Palestine.

As I said, I don’t particularly champion a few causes. But here are a few organisations that are particularly close to my heart: