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Lana Woolf: Including the Excluded

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Beyond the Binary: When the Sector Knows Better and Still Chooses Erasure

By Lana Woolf

6d ago

Beyond the Binary: When the Sector Knows Better and Still Chooses Erasure

6d ago

Is This a Gender Backlash, or the Normal Rhythm of History?

There is a question I have been holding quietly. It has followed me from meeting rooms to airport lounges, into community halls and early…

Nov 2

Is This a Gender Backlash, or the Normal Rhythm of History?

Nov 2

What Is Community, Really? On Belonging, Friendship, Power and Collective Becoming

A friend recently rang me, she wanted to talk about community. She had moved from Melbourne to the south coast of Sydney in search of a…

Oct 19

The image shows a large outdoor billboard with a bright red background and bold white text that reads: “COMMUNITY IS STRENGTH.” Beneath this in smaller text it says: “Be strong. Let’s look out for one another.”

Oct 19

Why Inclusion Can’t Wait Until Someone Comes Out

The room goes quiet when someone writes sexuality on a whiteboard. It’s a small word that shifts the whole energy. I once heard a senior…

Oct 12

Why Inclusion Can’t Wait Until Someone Comes Out

Oct 12

Diverse SOGIESC Inclusion: Accountability for Real Inclusion

Whenever I sit down with donors, managing contractors, INGOs, NGOs, or even rights holder organisations, I begin with one simple question…

Oct 5

Diverse SOGIESC Inclusion: Accountability for Real Inclusion

Oct 5

When “Gender Equality” Means Straight, Cis Women Only

Recently, I sat in conversation with a woman who works in a gender equality program that focuses on women. She wanted to engage with my…

Sep 28

When “Gender Equality” Means Straight, Cis Women Only

Sep 28

Why We Need Narrative Power Analysis in Inclusion Work

Development and community engagement practitioners love a good power map. Put “interest” on one axis, “influence” on the other, and you…

Sep 22

Why We Need Narrative Power Analysis in Inclusion Work

Sep 22

Working the Cracks: Reflections on Power, Resistance, and Diverse SOGIESC Inclusion in Fiji

I am in Fiji for three weeks, working with our project team as we prepare and carry out village visits alongside Disaster READY…

Sep 16

Working the Cracks: Reflections on Power, Resistance, and Diverse SOGIESC Inclusion in Fiji

Sep 16

Moving with Queer Movers: On Visibility, Safety, and Inclusion

Aug 25

Moving with Queer Movers: On Visibility, Safety, and Inclusion

Aug 25

Reclaiming Language, Reclaiming Knowing: World Indigenous Peoples Day and Queer Epistemologies

Last Saturday was World Indigenous Peoples Day, and it brought me back to a conversation I had only last week. We were talking about…

Aug 11

Reclaiming Language, Reclaiming Knowing: World Indigenous Peoples Day and Queer Epistemologies

Aug 11

Lana Woolf: Including the Excluded

Lana Woolf: Including the Excluded

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Founder of Community Powered Responses; Co-founder of Edge Effect, GEDSI specialist in the area of Women; People with Disabilities; People with Diverse SOGIESC

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