PRESS RELEASE: Intersectionality Awareness Week is coming!

ParaPride, alongside a range of amazing partners, are proud to announce Intersectionality Awareness Week, 12-18 May, 2025.

ParaPride, an intersectional charity that focuses on supporting and building awareness and inclusion of and access for the disabled LGBTQIA+ community, has launched Intersectionality Awareness Week with a range of other intersectional partners and charities to raise the profile of intersectional communities, their challenges, and their unique and valuable diversity. 

No person is fully represented by a single aspect of themselves.  ParaPride and our partners represent and advocate for intersectional communities, who have historically been exponentially marginalised, experiencing compounded discrimination and exclusion based on a combination of disability, race, gender, sexuality, religion, culture, socioeconomic background, education, and more.

Increasingly, there is recognition from businesses, governments, educators, and community leaders that we must put in place frameworks in society that support and include people to bring their “full selves” into our workplaces, communities, social spaces, and cultures.

This year’s Intersectionality Awareness Week is, we hope, the start of a global cultural shift from diversity and inclusion frameworks that focus on one aspect of a person’s experience and sense of self, to looking more holistically, compassionately, and openly at people who bring a wide diversity of experience and ability. 

We hope that you will join us in spreading the message, supporting our cause, and sharing your intersectional experience in your own workplace, community, social space, and beyond and encouraging others to do so.

Also, please join us at our fabulous online sessions during the week to hear from our community. Search for "Speakers" and "Speaker Content" in our website menu to see what's on!