Welcome to Inclusion Bites Watch! In this episode, we reflect on LGBTQ+ individuals serving in the Armed Forces with our guest speaker. Joanne Lockwood served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) at a time when the military wasn't a welcoming and accepting environment for the LGBTQ+ community. Today, she shares her experiences and thoughts on the ongoing fight for justice and recognition of past wrongs.
In this episode of Inclusion Bites Watch, host Joanne Lockwood explores the power and pitfalls of the word "queer" as a label for diverse sexual and gender identities. While the term had been used as a derogatory slur against the queer community, it has since been reclaimed and transformed as a symbol of pride, resilience, and self-identification.
Pride month is approaching fast, we are almost halfway through 2022 and this is the time where we will start to see organisation change their logos on social media to include the ‘rainbow’ and put out…
When I left school some 40 years ago, I was awarded a D in my GCE English O level. I wouldn’t have known what a pronoun was back in those days if it hit me between…