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NEU LGBT+ Conference 2024

LGBT+ Educators hold largest-ever union conference

Report from National Education Union LGBT+ Educators Conference by Janine Booth, delegate Published in Solidarity 698 Last weekend (2-4 February), 350 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and other non-straight education workers gathered in Birmingham for the National Education Union’s largest ever

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Work and menopause

Menopause at work hit the headlines on 22 February as the Equality and Human Rights Commission issued new guidance on the issue. However, the guidance only affirmed what the law has been for the last fourteen years, and the fact that news coverage trumpeted it as a breakthrough can only mean that employers have not been following the law.

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BPD word cloud // Credit: Wikimedia Commons

BPD: Bullshit Psychiatric Diagnosis

Basic problem: dysfunctional brain. Poisonous dynamic. Bad person. Difficult. Branded, pigeonholed, dubbed bonkers, psycho, disturbed. Best put down ‘borderline’. Please don’t bother protesting, dear. Boffin professionals drafted brilliant Ph Ds berating personal downfall Browbeaten patients drop by pharmacy, drugs bring

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What Most People Think

(Ode to Lee Anderson) When I said I hated men dressed in pink And that women should be tied to the kitchen sink I wasn’t being a prat, a bigot or fink I was simply saying what most people think

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Neurodiversity training, GMB Midlands

April 24 @ 08:30 - April 26 @ 15:00

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Venue: GMB Leicester office. Contact your branch or Regional Education Officer to enrol.

Venue: GMB Leicester office. Contact your branch or Regional Education Officer to enrol.

Details

Start:
April 24 @ 08:30
End:
April 26 @ 15:00

Issues and Campaigns:

Disability / Autism