Community organising
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No More Exclusions is a Black-led and community-based abolitionist grassroots coalition movement. As an NME member and accomplice to this incredible anti-racist, anti-capitalist resistance, I am involved in many parallel strands of the work from speaking at public events to build out the campaign, to designing resources for distribution.
After 3 years organising with the NME family, I launched the Leeds Chapter in Feb, 2025.
Hosted the Space 2 Breathe film premier, with Q&A with Producer Jordan Flaherty (New Orleans)
organised stalls at key locations to reach parents, carers, young people and school staff with key information on exclusions
currently working to launch Saturday schools, with anti-colonial pedagogy including connecting with the land/nature, anti-colonial history, African history, South Asian history, feminism and arts
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In 2024, I founded act up fight back (aufb) - Free Self-defence classes for QTBPOC people, following the fascist riots of 2024.
These defence classes partnering political education with physical defence training to fortify community and self. For QtBPOC people of all bodyminds. A de-colonial collectivist approach to building community strength in resistance to fascism and violence. We opened a chapter in London in 2025, and continue to grow!
We are grateful for the support from our funders (Amiel and Melburne Trust, and The Edge Fund)
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The LAD Fund is a strike fund for drag and queer artists turning gigs down, that are profiting from the genocide in Palestine. I launched The LAD Fund in 2023, after the success of the bad fund and returning to the UK from san francisco/oakland.
The national campaign led to a co-ordinated boycott of Pride events, that caused 8 Pride events to drop BDS sponsors. This included Brighton Pride who dropped Coca-Cola as a sponsor and publicly committed to BDS moving forward!
We raised £13,000+ raised for the strike fund and hundreds of eSIMs to Gaza, during the two year long siege that included rolling internet blackouts.
past projects
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In 2020, I co-founded Community Laptops C.I.C reaching thousands of families and individuals, with working devices to survive through the rolling lockdowns. We raised £10,673 within 3 weeks, and inspired the BBC “Give A Laptop” campaign, as well as Department for Education commitments to distribution 600,000 laptops across the UK school estate.
We are featured in Big Issue, Islington Tribune, and other media and are most proud of our community relationships with neighbours and schools. The project finished in 2023 due to low team capacity.
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Copwatch is an abolitionist collective, working to build community strength to intervene on state violence. I was an early member of the national Copwatch Network and founding member of Islington Copwatch. I regularly mobilised police station support, bystander interventions, training on transformative 101, know your rights and bystander intervention.
Growing our base of abolitionist minded people involved public outreach through stalls, leaflets and events.
We were active across prisons, police stations and detention centres (including Manston) and supported actvist campaigns such as “New Year, No Kier”. “Stop Wethersfield Airfield Prisons” (SWAP) with Community Action against Prison Expansion (CAPE), DSEI resistance and research projects into prison contracts e.g. Sodexo, G4S and Mitie.
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In november 2023, I co-founded The BAD Fund (Bay Area Drag) Fund with activist and drag king named king lotus boy, in collaboration with oaklash festival (the worlds largest drag festival). living in san francisco at the time, it was clear that several key events and venues were owned by shady characters, with deep connection to the arms trade and oppression.
we launched the bad fund to encourage drag performers to turn down pay cheques from zionists, who were using queer performers to pinkwash their reputation.
wins were abundant but best shared on non-digital means :)
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A collective including Women Driven Development and Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK mobilised to organise a remote hackathon in aid of those impacted by coronavirus and the rolling lockdowns in the UK.
Keyworkers in health, education, transport and social care were fighting to keep us safe, while people in lockdown were facing increasing struggles in looking after their families, finances, physical and mental health.
The #UKvsCOVIDHack invited those on the front line to speak about their challenges, and brought technology professionals together to develop tech solutions to help support them and our communities at large.
All footage from the event can be found here https://womendrivendev.org/ukvscovid19