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Binding Chest binding is a gender-affirming practice done by all kinds of different people. Some people bind to reduce gender dysphoria. It involves the use of tight fitting sports bras, shirts, ace bandages, or a specially made binder to provide a flat chest contour. In some people with larger breasts, multiple garments may be used. < Back to Glossary

(he/him) Vijay Vijay Chohan is a former corporate solicitor who quickly discovered that, as a gay South Asian, he didn't quite "fit in" to the homogenous (straight white middle-class) culture of his workplace. After seven years of enduring this toxic environment, he left and joined OLIVER Agency as an in-house lawyer, in search of a more creative and accepting culture. Following a two-year stint in Legal, Vijay decided to pursue his passion and joined the newly-formed DEI team as Global DEI Partner. Having made waves in Ad-land, Vijay has recently joined British Airways as Inclusion & Diversity Manager, where he hopes to drive sustainable change across aviation. Combining his legal expertise and personal experiences, he now champions inclusion and diversity in the workplace. Vijay is an expert in topics such as anti-racism, intersectionality, workplace allyship, and community building. He also has valuable insights into LGBTQ+ discrimination, mental health, well-being, body positivity, and identity. Vijay Chohan Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

South East Asian South East Asian culture and heritage is typically associated with the region made up of Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. < Back to Glossary

(he/they) Carlos Carlos is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advocate, Human Rights Defender and HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Advocate. An Ivory Coast native, he is on the board of several national and international organizations, and is the Francophone Projects Consultant for the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI). He was a member of the LGBT Francophonie Conference Scientific Committee . He travels the world to spread the word about equality—LGBTQ as well as women’s equality—and HIV/AIDS prevention and education. He does it while speaking fluently in English, French or Spanish. He does it by speaking in the universal language of activism. Carlos Idibouo Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(she/her) Joela-Abiona Joela is the founder of the Stonewall Protests - a collective of organizers who center Black Trans Liberation by working towards the expansion of mutual aid, abolitionist teaching and anarchy. She is also a social media educator, creating posts that spread the truths we were not taught. Joela’s passion for abolition is not only rooted in the experiences she had being born and raised in the Bronx but by the wisdom she received being raised by her Puerto Rican and Trinidadian parents. She began her revolutionary work in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the rebirth of the Black Lives Matter Movement - with her central message being “abolition is liberation.” Through her work as an abolitionist, she found the strength and freedom to begin socially and medically transitioning. This freedom is what fuels her drive to spread radical love, hold people accountable, be compassionate, remain in humility and work towards the abolishment of police, militaries, governments and capitalism. Joela-Abiona Rivera Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(he/they) Dan Dan is an educator, performer and film presenter recognised as 'Activist of the Year,' ‘campaigning role model’ and 'BBC Greater Londoner' for founding ‘Queer Tours of London’. His book(s) ‘United Queerdom’ won Observer book of the week and is now touring ‘Queer Footprints’. Dedicating his life to transformational leadership influenced by his Grandparents stories surviving the Nazi Holocaust, Dan is now on the international committee of Training for Transformation and an artist with ‘In Place of War’, catalysing empowerment programmes in Uganda, Poland and beyond. Dan recently founded Queer/Trans Muay Thai & Self Defence movement Bender Defenders. Dan Glass Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(he/him) Manuel Manuel is an award-winning Queer Therapist & Coach, bestselling author, and founder of HeyManuel.com . He helps LGBTQ+ professionals worldwide to authentically be themselves without years of struggles using mediation, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, neuroscience, NLP, CBT, parts therapy, Gestalt psychology, and transformational coaching. Manuel also consults organizations on Mental Health, Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Belonging, HR & Leadership. He can speak on topics such as Workplace Allyship, LGBTQ+ Discrimination, Mental Health, Well-being, Addiction, Self-empowerment, Culture Change, Community Building, Trauma, and Human Resources. Outside of work, Manuel enjoys brunch, Iced Decaf Americanos in the sun, and exploring the Queer nightlife and theatre scene. Manuel Schlothauer Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(they/them) Katya Katya is a Senior Practitioner accredited leadership coach with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council , but their true passion lies in fostering Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity. Katya is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to discover the techniques, methods, and language needed to create a harmonious work environment where everyone can be their best self. With a background in Architecture and digital adoption, Katya brings a wealth of interdisciplinary skills to their work. Furthermore, Katya's unique intersectional identity as a queer Eastern European immigrant and a person with an intersex variation has positioned them as a powerful force for bridging communication gaps. Through their unwavering commitment to creating an inclusive workplace, Katya is changing the way we view leadership and coaching. Katya Veleva Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

Biphobia Biphobia is aversion toward bisexuality and bisexual people as individuals. It is a form of discrimination against those in the bisexual community. It can take the form of denial that bisexuality is a genuine sexual orientation, or of negative stereotypes about people who are bisexual. < Back to Glossary

(she/her) Cindy Cindy is an award winning digital communication consultant with more than 10 years of experience in the social and digital communication field, developing strategies in MENA for brands such as New Suez Canal, Qi, Kimberly Clark, British American Tobacco, Coca Cola, The Cheesecake Factory, GROHE, Unilever, Roche, UNICEF, LG, Volkswagen and Nissan. She is an advocate for volunteer work with cultural and tourism sustainability NGO’s such as Anna Lindh foundation, the cultural center in Zouk Mikael, WHL and Souk el Tayeb. She’s also the co-founder of Barcelona-based Lebanese restaurant, Bērytī. Cindy Nehme Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

Intersex An umbrella term used to describe a person who is born with a physiological or biological variation in their sex development. Their body may not fit some stereotypical ideas of what we are taught about female and male bodies. < Back to Glossary

Download our free communications toolkit, providing expert advice, strategies and professional perspectives on new comms challenges facing the DEI industry. DEI Communications Toolkit 2025 STRATEGIES FOR NEW DEI CHALLENGES Join our Community Evolve your DEI strategy. Mounting pressure on DEI is manifesting in new communication challenges, from internal approval blockages to restrictions on global comms. Our new 5-page communications toolkit provides actionable strategies, professionals perspectives and data points to help you overcome common DEI communication challenges. Download free toolkit Toolkit Contents: - Reframing DEI language - Harnessing strategic influence - Driving engagement without centralised comms - Perspectives from DEI professionals - Supporting statistics and further reading Download free toolkit About WE CREATE SPACE We Create Space is a global community-led learning platform and culture-change consultancy on a mission to improve the lives of marginalised and underrepresented groups of professionals around the world. Find out more Any questions? For any more information please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Get in touch

Liberation 1. Liberation as a feeling can be sensed when we feel safe and connected to those around us, and we're able to have fun and be ourselves without hiding parts of our identities. 2. Liberation in society is a result in progression of heightened Civil Rights, equality and equity for all of those who belong to marginalised communities (See Legislation, Progress, Elected Official and Civil Rights) (See: Belonging, Chosen Family, Coming Out, Community and Queer Joy) (See: Legislation, Progress, Elected Official and Civil Rights) < Back to Glossary

(he/him) David David is a queer Malaysian movement facilitator based in London, who shares embodied practices of connection through joy, wonder, and freedom. David's unique blend of architecture, dance, and spirituality showcases movement as an expression of both party and protest. By exploring the idea of "home" in the body, David encourages collective action and trans-generational healing. David is the founder of Kindred-Packet , a grassroots movement dedicated to uplifting East and South East Asian (ESEA) communities through culturally sensitive practices of well-being. He is also an active bystander trainer for Britain's East and South East Asian Network , delivering training sessions across England and Wales. David's expertise includes a range of topics such as intersectionality, workplace allyship, and anti-racism, and he is a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and community building. David Kam Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(she/her) Teresa Teresa is a queer woman of colour from London, based in Spain. She is a career coach (focusing on coaching women and LGBTQIA+ folk), a writer, a content manager in the tech space, and a dancer. Community-building and personal empowerment are the central, interwoven principles of Teresa's work. She takes a holistic approach, drawing on both her corporate and creative skillsets, to unlock the greatness in every individual and support the community. Teresa Lee Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

Collaboration Social collaboration brings people and stakeholders together to achieve a common goal. Like in organisations, social collaboration becomes the driving force behind a community movement or initiative for change. < Back to Glossary

Asexuality A person who does not experience sexual attraction. Some asexual people experience romantic attraction, while others do not. Asexual people who experience romantic attraction might also use terms such as gay, bi, lesbian, straight and queer in conjunction with asexual to describe the direction of their romantic attraction. < Back to Glossary

Bodily Wisdom We are all gifted with innate body wisdom. Being body-wise means connecting to the great intelligence that has evolved in our bodies through millennia of evolution. There are many ways through which we can connect more with our body. See: Meditation, Breathwork and Movement. < Back to Glossary

Inclusion The practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who have physical or mental disabilities and members of other minority groups. It's important to recognise however that inclusive practices and policies benefit all parts of society. < Back to Glossary

Change-maker Change-makers are people who fundamentally want to transform the status-quo. They are an integral part of the LGBTQIA+ activism community and the civil rights that queer people have today wouldn't exist without them. Thanks to people like Marsha P. Johnson during the Stonewall Riots, change was sparked in western society which has formed the foundation of those who are trying to make change today. (See Civil Rights) < Back to Glossary