We Create Space & Trans+ Solidarity.

Members of the WCS team share how to practise trans+ solidarity in your personal and professional life.

As a global DEI consultancy, community & learning platform, we understand the importance of trans+ solidarity in 2025. Our allyship and support for our trans, non-binary and gender-diverse audiences and clients are embedded throughout our work. We strive to ensure that paid opportunities, representation and visibility are at the forefront of our operations.

Standing with our trans+ siblings, particularly at this time, is part of the ethos of what we do, which is brought to life by the commitment, expertise and passion of the We Create Space team. Here they share how they’re showing up for the trans+ community in their day to day professional roles and beyond…

Neil Hudson-Basing (he/him)

Community & Events Director

I’ve harnessed my energy and enthusiasm alongside my professional experience and skillset when it comes to my activism and allyship to trans+ Community. 

Through my role as Community & Events Director for We Create Space, I’m dedicated to showcasing the expertise of trans+ folk just as much as asking them to talk about their lived experience. When curating offerings for both our corporate clients and our community, I ensure that trans+ and non-binary representation is factored in to ensure people see themselves in the stories we’re trying to tell through our events and experiences.

But my Trans+ solidarity isn’t just limited to my 9-5 day…

• Outside of work, I’m a huge advocate for volunteering which has seen me undertake the role of Events Director for Trans+ History Week. 

• Over a third of the 60+ guests on my podcast, Pause. And Rewind…, have been trans+ or non-binary.

• I consistently platform and provide paid opportunities for trans+ talent at The House of Happiness, the sober rave I co-founded three years ago.

• I’ve talked on stages and written for publications on the importance of Trans+ inclusive practices & guidance in the events industry.

• I’ll go out of my way to support numerous trans+ friends, creatives, innovators and organisations, like the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, in their ventures. 

I’ve been in the events industry for almost 20 years and through my lengthy events career, I’ve come to know that the power of impactful storytelling along with a solid grounding in effective logistics and planning can help to create a sense of belonging. As well as making sure that trans+ folk feel seen and celebrated. Tapping into my skillset and strengths has enabled me to demonstrate I’m in this with them.

This is my style of allyship. Action and advocacy rooted in love for trans+ community combined with rage at the current landscape they’re experiencing.

Jon-Paul Vicari (he/him)

Managing Director 

In April 2024, I wrote this article “Prioritising Trans Allyship in our Queer Future” as a call to action for cis queer specifically to elevate their efforts to supporting trans and non-binary people. It’s now November 2025 and there is an even more urgent need to show up as allies. For me, writing is one way to display allyship as it allows me to express my thoughts and create conversations with friends, family, and strangers. Because words have impact, they can change the way we behave, think, and feel about ourselves and the world around us. 

Over the last year here are other ways I’ve shown up to support trans+ individuals  in my life: 

• Reviewed resumes and CV’s to provide feedback and support to trans friends looking for work

• Referred trans people into roles I saw posted on Linkedin with direct introductions to hiring managers in my network 

• Donated to trans+ causes when I have had the financial means to do so and shared them on social media 

• Marched in London Trans+ Pride

• Educated myself by using the Trans+ History Week workbook and reading books and articles by trans+ authors

Prior to We Create Space, I spent over 8 years in the Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Marketing, and Employer Branding space and being able to use that knowledge to be an ally is wonderful. Sharing your expertise to help someone is allyship. Platforming someone's event or fundraiser is allyship. Big and small actions are allyship. My path to inclusion is paved by actions of all measures.

Jua O'Kane (they/he)

Marketing Manager

Through my work at We Create Space I aid in platforming trans+ voices, overseeing the production of content which platforms trans+ perspectives and diversifies how trans_ experiences are represented. From trans+ professionals in the corporate world to grassroots activists and legal advocates, it is essential that we celebrate and platform the work of the trans+ community. Within my personal art practice I also do my best to challenge how trans people are commonly represented in media and depict the scale of diversity within the trans+ community.

Outside of my role at We Create Space I am also the Communications Director of my local trans pride, where I am utilising my professional skills and design background to create a strong local base for our community. As a core committee member of the organisation, we work hard to create paid opportunities for local trans creatives, whether that is through designing merch for us, performing or selling their work at our events.

As a white, able-bodied transmasculine person, practising trans+ solidarity for me is often about doing what I can to support and centre the experiences of trans+ people who are more intersectionally marginalised than myself:

• Working to make Trans Pride Plymouth's events as accessible as possible.

• Donating to trans healthcare fundraisers.

• Educating myself on the perspectives of trans+ people who are racialised, disabled, neurodivergent or otherwise marginalised.

• Challenge bigotry as it occurs in our communities, especially transmisogyny.

• Sharing job opportunities and resources with other trans+ people.

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