Small acts of inclusion

People are always wearing headphones or looking at their phones. It makes it hard…

I was 3 weeks postpartum and 2 days away from mastitis. Dazed, confused, far from family, friends and any sense of community…

Arriver dans un lieu inconnu n’est pas toujours simple. Problèmes de langue, de compréhension, de culture. Surtout dans une ville ou un quartier durement touché par le chômage et la précarité…

I work in a small town and my colleagues are what I’d call pretty conventional people. Because my same-sex partner and I live together…

It makes me really angry when someone picks on someone because they are a little bit fat or they are shy or don’t understand English yet.

A mum at my daughter’s nursery school had recently had a stroke and couldn’t talk or walk very well. She would sit at the back of the parents’ meetings…

When my daughter was 7 and we just recently arrived in Switzerland we made some little sweet cakes from our home in Syria…

I use a wheelchair and I like it when people in the street ask me the time or directions.

I am from Japan and recently moved to France. Actually soon after moving, my anxiety increased day by day…

L’année dernière, j’ai changé d’école et puis c’était très difficile dans ma nouvelle classe. Je ne comprenais rien aux exercices et je n’avais pas encore d’amis…

Tengo una sobrina que es lesbiana pero no ha salido del closet oficialmente…

I used to see this guy sleeping rough on my way to work. I’d walk past him each morning and he’d be there reading the paper…

At Digital Basecamp Co-Working Rotorua in #NewZealand we host members from around the globe, like Juliana from Colombia and Gert from Belgium…

I work on a (docked) refugee boat a couple of days a week and the ‘passengers’ are mostly young men from Africa, economic refugees in search of a better life, fleeing lives of poverty…

Yo no sabía su historia de vida, solamente que ocupaba una silla y un café sin leche, conectar su computadora y agua para sus perros…

Last year my young neighbour, who had always dressed in a masculine way, told me she was transitioning to become a man…

More than anything, I love Japan! Amazing food, rich history, beautiful art and scenery and of course great people. After studying abroad in Osaka…

I used to avoid getting behind old people in the supermarket checkout queue because they can be slow…

We were running a Bed&Breakfast (guest house) and an elderly couple had booked in for a week for their son’s wedding…

I feel welcome in my home city of Copenhagen when there are clear instructions on how to behave…

A member of the gym I own came in for a work out and as he was leaving said he was going to the food bank…

We walk past an older homeless lady every day on the way to nursery. She always smiles when she sees my little boy on his scooter…

I was walking down a street in Lhasa, Tibet, completely lost as usual…

20 years in this flat and countless meals, drinks, talks, tears, party, meetings…

I once went to a dinner party and all the other guests either worked or volunteered for the same political party…