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WoC in the Workplace Report 2024

WoC in the Workplace Report 2021

Academic Article 2022: Bodies of at Work How Women of Colour Experienced Their Workplaces and Have Been Expected to Perform During the COVID 19 Pandemic

Community Consultation 2024: Speaking from Experience: Asking women of colour what needs to change to address workplace sexual harassment?

Community Consultation 2022: National Anti-Racism Framework

Statement 2024: About the Ongoing Violence in Israel and Palestine

Statement 2023: Statement of Support of A First Nations Voice To Parliament

Submission 2023: Department of Home Affairs Multicultural Framework Review- Terms of Reference (draft)

Submission 2022: National Anti Racism Framework Australian Human Rights Commission

Submission 2022: WGEA Review Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

Submission 2022: Inquiry into the Human Rights Implications of recent Violence in Iran

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Shelley Ware
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Simi Rayat
Program Facilitator

Tasneem Chopra
Program Facilitator

Abiola Ajetomobi
Program Facilitator

Diana Omuoyo
Volunteer Ambassador Outreach Lead

Sara Kitaoji
TBD

Shazya Khan
Project Coordinator

Paige Blahodyr
Executive Assistant

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Shelley Ware
Program Facilitator
Simi Rayat
Program Facilitator
Tasneem Chopra
Program Facilitator
Abiola Ajetomobi
Program Facilitator
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Shelley Ware
Program Facilitator

Simi Rayat
Program Facilitator

Tasneem Chopra
Program Facilitator

Abiola Ajetomobi
Program Facilitator

Diana Omuoyo
Volunteer Ambassador Outreach Lead

Sara Kitaoji
TBD

Shazya Khan
Project Coordinator

Paige Blahodyr
Executive Assistant

Annie Chan
Volunteer Coordinator

Without Space
Personnel With Carousel
Shelley Ware
Program Facilitator
Simi Rayat
Program Facilitator
Tasneem Chopra
Program Facilitator
Abiola Ajetomobi
Program Facilitator
Diana Omuoyo
Volunteer Ambassador Outreach Lead
Sara Kitaoji
TBD
Shazya Khan
Project Coordinator
Paige Blahodyr
Executive Assistant
Annie Chan
Volunteer Coordinator

The Origin of the phrase “Women of Color”
"Women of Color is not a biological designation. It is a solidarity definition. A commitment to work in collaboration with other oppressed women of color who have been minoritized. It is a term that has a lot of power." Loretta Ross
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Women Definition
Women - Transgender and cisgender, all those who experience or have experienced oppression as women, including non-binary and gender non-conforming people and all those who identify as women. Self-definition is at the discretion of the individual.
Definition credit: wire.org.au
ALLY Definition
A - always centre the impacted
L - listen and learn from those who live in oppression
L - leverage your privilege
Y - yield the floor
*Mnemonic credit: Kayla Reed Executive Director ACTION St. Louis Follow Kayla Reed on Twitter @iKaylaReed
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We acknowledge the Wallumattagal clan of the Darug nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Women of Colour Australia is situated. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and honour the strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with whom we stand in solidarity. We acknowledge that as settlers on this stolen Aboriginal land, we are beneficiaries of the dispossession, genocide, and ongoing colonial violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We believe that it is our collective responsibility and moral imperative to help dismantle the systemic barriers and structural inequities oppressing the original inhabitants of this land. This land is and always will be Aboriginal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.