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April 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

April 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

With April being Stress Awareness Month, we took the opportunity to focus on stress-related words for the month’s Diversity Dictionary theme. Read on to learn ways to understand, recognise and manage stress, and proactively keep it at bay.

March 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

March 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

March saw the arrival of Sleep Awareness Week in the US (from March 14th-20th), World Sleep Day on March 19th and National Bed Month in the UK. Multiple reasons for us to celebrate one of the most natural and instinctual healing powers within us as human beings: Sleep!

February 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

February 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

February marks LGBTQIA+ History month in the UK. We chose to mark the month through our Diversity Dictionary series, specifically focusing on identities that are actually left out of the ‘LGBTQIA+’ acronym.

January 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

January 2021 Diversity Dictionary Roundup

Welcome to 2021! Our theme for the month – and for all of 2021, in fact – is sustainability. It will inform everything we do and create in-house, with and for our community and our clients. What better place to set the tone than with Diversity Dictionary

December Diversity Dictionary Roundup

December Diversity Dictionary Roundup

December is a short month for us at TOB HQ as we’re closing our doors for the festive period for three whole week so that we can rest and recoup from the year that has been 2020. But that doesn’t mean we’ve taken it easy with the Diversity Dictionary offerings! This month, we covered words and concepts that negatively impact the work of social justice and equity.

November Diversity Dictionary Roundup

November Diversity Dictionary Roundup

We started November 2020 anxious and unsure of what the conclusion would be for one of the most important US elections of our generation. By the end of month, we had sighed a huge collective sigh of relief! We saw the power of grassroots mobilisation, activism and collective persistence.

October Diversity Dictionary Roundup

October Diversity Dictionary Roundup

October marks Black History Month in the UK. This year more than ever, organisations and individuals had the responsibility to truly educate themselves not only on Black British history but how Black British history is British history. With that in mind, October’s Diversity Dictionary offerings are words and concepts that shed some light on global experiences of Black people and people of colour.

September Diversity Dictionary Roundup

September Diversity Dictionary Roundup

As some of us made the slow return to the office or workplace, we spent September’s #DiversityDictionary looking at words that critique certain attempts at diversity, equity and inclusion. It can be very easy for organisations to take superficial action without creating meaningful change that truly challenges the systems and structures that create inequity in the first place.

August Diversity Dictionary Roundup

August Diversity Dictionary Roundup

For August’s Diversity Dictionary we partnered with Sulaiman Khan of @ThisAbilityLtd to share definitions that centre the voices and experiences of disabled people. In the process of creating these posts for August and partnering with This Ability, we at TOB HQ learned so much about our own non-disabled privilege.

Furlough and bias: An open letter to business leaders facing tough decisions

Furlough and bias: An open letter to business leaders facing tough decisions

Business leaders are facing some of the toughest people-related decisions of their careers. One for which there is no blueprint, no guidelines. It is a great unknown. Whether having to furlough staff, give out redundancies or simply lay them off, there is something those decision-makers need to be aware of more than ever: unconscious bias.

February Diversity Dictionary round-up

February Diversity Dictionary round-up

Welcome to our February round-up of the Diversity Dictionary™ Word of the Week. You might have noticed we’ve been exploring a Word of the Week every Monday on our social profiles over the past month. February marks the annual month-long observance of LGBT+ history in the UK, so that was our theme for our inaugural month.