It is clear how ethnic disparities within the labour market are linked to other disparities in policy such as housing, and influenced by national crises such as the cost of living crisis. Issues within the labour market leads to wage disparity between minoritised communities and their White counterparts.
The Telling Stories event on 22nd November 2022, was a powerful, social and introspective conversation about the art of storytelling. I know this because I was there. It asked critical questions that were extremely thought-provoking about how the UnMuseum project (as it stands today with this name) will tell stories. But it was also a general conversation for storytellers in all modes and forms, as well as an educational one.
In 2020, between April and May 5% out of around 2.6 million adults said they felt lonely often or always. (Ons.Gov, 2020). Now in 2022, one in four adults feel lonely some of or all of the time (Mental Health Foundation, 2022). People from Black and Minoritised backgrounds are much more likely to experience loneliness and encounter issues around mental health because of significant inequalities mainly around employment, finances, and housing (Mind, 2020).
