In our GEC world, you will be free to be whom you want to be, regardless of how you identify as and/ or your intersection of characteristics.

In our GEC world, you will recognise how your privilege can open opportunities and secure justice for others.

In our GEC world, you will understand your impact on a local and global scale - and see the world as one global collective.

One of our main aims is to impact social change through our communities and work - we want all of our futures to be equitable.

GEC educators will educate themselves on DEIJ and in turn support their students and communities to learn and grow.

Our GEC Rebels (homes and families) supporting their kids to do this is part of our work - as they explore their identities, their privileges and their rights, then learn to be respectful of the rights of others others and the world around them. We are here to equip, educate and empower.

Our aim is nothing short of systemic change, to help us all break out of binary thinking about privilege and diversity.

Intersectional inclusion is our mission.

Therefore the 9 characteristics protected by the 2010 Equality Act are our foundation - but we have evolved past this.

We also include socio-economic status, single parents rights, neurodiversity inclusion, menopause awareness, flexible working, and Global Citizenship.

We call them the Global Equality Characteristics.

Why? We look to support the inclusion of all people, beyond their core characteristics or how they identify.

We don’t tell people what to think. Our aim is to give people all the information through education, data, debate and conversation, to decide for themselves.

Equality for all is our goal.

We know that equity comes before equality.

Equity means equipping and empowering those who have less privileges or require reasonable adjustments.

Then we can all be treated equally.

We believe that equality benefits everyone everywhere - regardless of your neurodiversity, gender, race, ability, orientation, identity, religion, background, nationality, age, or socioeconomic status.

We stand for equality of rights, opportunity, pay parity, equity and inclusion for all people - regardless of race, sex, gender or other protected characteristics.

Equal opportunities, inclusion and freedom from bias is the right of all people, wherever you live, learn, work or play.

Stereotyping is just lazy - whichever you identify as, or what your intersectional lived experience is, or whom you are an ally for.

We know that everyone has cognitive biases, but stereotyping others limits your perception of their lived experiences, worth and potential.

Therefore we stand for the obliteration of all stereotypes when it comes to diversity and inclusion.

As a general rule we don’t generalisation. Examples like “These people are…”, “These people don’t…”, “Those people can…” both label and limit.

We always advocate getting to know an individual, rather than making assumptions based on your knowledge of any of their characteristics and/or their lived experience.

Breaking down language barriers - we believe that arming people with the words to use to hold respectful conversations is key to diversity and inclusion.

Talking about “acceptable terms” to describe a group is obviously a generalisation.

There are always exceptions to the rule.

Preliminary education about a topic; some generalisations are necessary when talking about a broad topic. Yet, we will always try to phrase it to leave room for exceptions “Some marginalised people believe…”, “Many trans women believe…” rather than “Women believe…”.

We will always fight for and support those fighting for racial equality.

We support and signpost brilliant people in our Global Equality Collective and beyond, working on anti-racism in education and in homes.

The anti-racism movement is moving quickly and we will always be mindful of being up to date and will always take our lead from, amplify the voices of and signpost our Collective Members who experience racism and want to educate people on it.

At the Global Equality Collective, at the time of writing, our collective consensus is that we capitalise the B in Black and leave w in white in lower case. The reasons for this are that we want to distance ourselves from white supremacy in all its forms and we also agree with the reparation sentiment in Ann Price’s words;

Until the wrongs against Black people have been righted, we cannot embrace equal treatment in our language.

We don’t believe that all males are or should be “masculine” and all females are or should be “feminine”.

We don’t fear femme or femininity or see it as less-than or weakness. We believe that femme and feminine should be a choice open to any sex, gender and orientation. In the same way, we also don’t demonise masc or masculine or make generalisations or assumptions based on appearance.

We believe that instead of a restrictive binary, gender should be an open playground upon which any individual should be free to move at will, as often as they like.

This starts when a person is born and continues across their life time.

We strongly support transgender, trans and non binary people, their pronouns, gender descriptors and their rights to express their identity however they wish to.

When we say “men” or “women” that always includes all those who identify as men or women.

Whilst we welcome debate, conversation and curiosity, we do not tolerate trans exclusionary or non binary exclusionary behaviour, of any kind.

We support all genders to love, be attracted to and parent in partnership with whomever they choose to.

Love and attraction are wonderful things which we support in all genders, sexes and orientations.

We don’t believe that people are their external characteristics, their protected characteristics or limited to tick box options.

We believe that people are the identities they choose for themselves and who they choose to live as, however that is expressed.

We will always fight for and support those fighting for gender equality.

We support and signpost brilliant people in our Global Equality Collective and beyond, working on sexism in education and in homes.

When feminism is defined as intersectional - actively working towards equal opportunities, access and inclusion for all - we are feminists. This means feminism for all genders, all sexes, all races and ethnicities, all disabilities and all abilities, all orientations, all religions, nationalities, neurodiverse identities, spoken languages and socioeconomic statuses.

Being intersectional means we want to highlight the lived experience of women who are under-privileged in modern society. We are anti-racist feminists which means we are very aware that historically the fight for equality has, at times, excluded women of colour. We also want to actively work against this historical marginalisation and include all women.

Exclusionary feminism of any kind just ain’t our thang.

Inclusion, justice and sustainability are important to us as a collective of humans.

We want to protect and fight for justice for people and the planet - for now and for future generations. We believe that including sustainability now to the conversation is key to a better future for us all.