Tigan Palmer

📢We're delighted to let you know that our #StandWithTrans🏳️‍⚧️ trans inclusion campaign is now LIVE!! More info here: charitysostraight.org.uk Please share widely #CharitySoStraight

Abortion is HEALTHCARE & it’s time the law treats it as such. theguardian.com/world/2023/jun… This is why we are campaigning to decriminalise abortion. Join us, and find out how to support, here: rb.gy/u8ez1

Today, a mother-of-three has been jailed for 28 months after using abortion pills to end her own pregnancy. No woman can ever go through this again. We need abortion law reform in Great Britain NOW. #TimeToAct

NEW REHEARSING FREEDOMS EVENTS!! ✨✨ We’re so excited to announce 4 new events to build towards #RehearsingFreedoms, our month-long festival of art, community healing and movement building Autumn '23! Save the dates and join us! Look out for ticketing info & speakers v soon 💖

I am hosting some focus groups for up to 90 minutes in April & May to explore the racial wealth gap in London. Participants will be offered £40 as a thank you. This is in conjunction with LSE & the Young Foundation. please get in touch if interested. Many thanks

The Macpherson report in 99 after Stephen Lawrence's murder highlighted the institutionally oppressive and dangerous systems in policing. The Casey report, 24 years later, tells us the same. Change, now.

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are excited to share the launch of our new initiative the ‘No Cost in Giving’ programme 🎉 This programme will provide young Black/Black mixed people aged 12-30 years old the opportunity to enjoy the cultural highlights of London for free!

People seeking asylum in this country make up only 0.18% of the population. If they do have recourse to public funds, it is £37.75 a week. That is just over £5 per day. In one year, Suella Braverman claimed £159,000 in expenses. That is £435 a day.

Make time to read this incredible piece of narrative and reparative response to systemic racialised exclusions in education. By my @NExclusions sisters @zahrabei and @HelenKnowler 🙌🏻 Stories tell experience in the way stats never can. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Hundreds of thousands of teachers are on strike this week. Why? 📉 Real pay down by more than 20% since 2010 📖 Devastating austerity cuts to school budgets 👩‍🏫 Stress, exhaustion and unbearable workloads amid a retention crisis RT if you're with our teachers 👊

'The report shows starkly we have a broken system of support... with children's services and families battling against grinding poverty. All too often we see policy that treats children and young people as an afterthought rather than a critical part of our society.' @helenhayes_

'Thanks to children from @the_kidsnetwork for contributing to this report.' Louise King of @CRAE_official highlighting key findings: impact of the pandemic and #CostOfLivingCrisis on children's #mentalhealth and #childrensservices, 4 million UK children living in poverty #UNCRC23

@the_kidsnetwork at the Houses of Parliament for #UNCRC23 #ChildrensRights civil society alternative report launch - thanks to @CRAE_official and @Justforkidslaw for consulting our children when creating the report 💫 stay tuned for the key findings and a link to the publication!

UK #LGBTplusHM is here, celebrating LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to cinema and film from #BehindTheLens. We encourage you to look ‘Behind the Lens’ to learn about the lived experiences of LGBT+ people. Together we can Claim our past – Celebrate our present – Create our future

Live scenes #Birmingham #TeacherStrike

The fact that children in the care of the government are being bundled into cars and lost to exploitation & this is not the biggest story today tells you everything about racism & anti migrant sentiment in our politics, our government, our media & society.

The opposite of trauma is connection.

A thread 🧵on 6 KEY principles I have learned after a decade in social work for effective child protection practice...

"The means are the ends --and if we simply confront the oppression 'out there'... we will only be creating more culturally familiar versions of the systems we say we want to dismantle." - Micky ScottBey Jones @iammickyjones, 'An Invitation to Brave Space'