{"id":1074,"date":"2026-01-26T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.equalityanddiversity.co.uk\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:28:49","slug":"seen-for-my-skills-ignored-for-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.equalityanddiversity.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/seen-for-my-skills-ignored-for-who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen for my skills, ignored for who I am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I volunteer across a range of panels\/boards and as a school governor because I believe in justice, equality and collective responsibility. I give my time, my expertise and my lived experience freely. Organisations value my skills, my knowledge and my professionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But too often, they fail to see <em>me<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I am a woman.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am ethnically diverse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am Jewish.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have a range of disabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are not footnotes. They are central to who I am and how I experience the world. Yet when it comes to recognition, inclusion and solidarity, these parts of my identity are frequently ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Remembrance Cannot Be Selective<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holocaust Memorial Day is not just a date in a diary. For Jewish people, it is deeply personal. It carries the weight of six million Jewish men, women and children murdered simply for being Jewish, alongside Roma people, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people and others targeted by Nazi hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembrance is not abstract. It lives in family stories, in silences, in names that were never passed down, and in traditions that survived attempts to erase them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, year after year, I watch organisations I serve find reasons not to acknowledge it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t have time.\u201d<br>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to get it wrong.\u201d<br>\u201cWe didn\u2019t think it was relevant.\u201d<br>\u201cWe were focusing on something else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These statements may sound reasonable. They are not neutral.<br>They are choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They tell Jewish staff, governors, parents and pupils that remembrance can be postponed.<br>They tell marginalised communities that their history is optional.<br>They tell children that some suffering belongs in textbooks rather than in shared moral responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When organisations fail to mark events that matter deeply to the communities within them, they send a message about whose pain counts and whose can be overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Holocaust Did Not Begin With Camps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It began with words.<br>With prejudice becoming normal.<br>With exclusion becoming policy.<br>With silence becoming consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holocaust Memorial Day exists to remind us where unchecked hatred leads. Rising antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, homophobia and misogyny tell us this history is not safely locked in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If remembrance does not shape our actions today, then it becomes ritual without responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Representation Is Not a Box to Tick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am often welcomed into spaces for what I bring professionally, but not always embraced for who I am personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a difference between diversity and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Belonging means:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>acknowledging significant cultural and faith events<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>amplifying marginalised voices, not just inviting them into the room<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>understanding that intersectionality matters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>recognising that one person can carry multiple identities at once<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not leave my Jewishness, my ethnicity or my womanhood at the door when I volunteer. Neither should the organisations I serve.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Low Excuses, High Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to stop treating inclusion as optional and remembrance as inconvenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is always time to acknowledge.<br>There is always a way to learn.<br>There is always space to show solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cohesion requires courage. It requires empathy. And it requires leadership that is willing to challenge prejudice rather than quietly step around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a school governor and panel\/board member, I believe our responsibility is clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>build communities where diversity is visible and valued<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>challenge hatred wherever it appears<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>move from statements to action<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ensure \u201cnever again\u201d is lived, not just spoken<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This Is a Call to Action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you benefit from the labour of volunteers from ethnically diverse communities, then you also carry the responsibility to see them fully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not just their skills.<br>Not just their output.<br>But their identities, histories and humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Remembrance must become an active promise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>to confront hatred with solidarity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to challenge inequality with action<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to build spaces where everyone can thrive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No more silence.<br>No more excuses.<br>No more selective inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we truly believe in equality, then we must practice it loudly, visibly and consistently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteer across a range of panels\/boards and as a school governor because I believe in justice, equality and collective responsibility. 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