Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Support Groups

Building our connections and resilience

All the work within the EDI space is informed by those with lived experience. There are a number of inclusive groups within JSO that meet regularly and explore themes such as being neurodivergent and taking action, Trans rights in prison and racism within the police force. The themes explored in these meetings have been used (with the permission of contributors) to create training, documents and guidelines for the rest JSO to adopt to better its practices overall.  The inclusive group chats are really important because the they act both as a mutual support spaces for people to communicate with others that have the same experience as them, AND through support of the EDI team, enable these conversations to inform the rest of our community to develop and learn to create and maintain safer spaces for all. 

Check out this document for the offerings available: EDI Offering

All group chats use Brave Space framework which has been developed and used for a long time in educational context to support conversations and facilitation of race, power and privilege. Read more on brave space framework here https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/media/ssw/field-education/2---The-6-Pillars-of-Brave-Space.pdf 

Inclusive spaces/group chats meaning only those that identify as that community can join - NOT for ally-ship 

Join these spaces for our diverse activists, these spaces are for identifying community members only, not for allyship.

👾 BAIPOC for Black, Asian, Indigenous, People Of Colour JSO Signal group https://bit.ly/3HL0uo1

👾 Rainbow Road Block (LGBTQIA+) Signal group https://bit.ly/3NcXPoc

👾 Neurodiverse Resistance Signal group https://bit.ly/3Ok98MG
👾Womxn space Signal Group for FINT (Female, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans) https://bit.ly/404CLbE

👾 Disabled Civil Resistors Signal group https://bit.ly/3Qn0Ze3

👾 JSO Global South (Space to unite and amplify voices of JSO members from the Majority World) http://tinyurl.com/m99pp4nf

You can also contact Equity Diversity and Inclusion at accesstoaction@protonmail.com