Britanie Boyd
Executive Assistant to the CEO
She/Her
WHAT MAKES ME HOPEFUL?
Community makes me hopeful. The violence embedded in the white supremacist, capitalist state is such that it makes us feel like we are perpetually alone and fending for ourselves- that no one should take care of you and that you can’t depend on anyone. The existence of community, be it friends, chosen families, colleagues, etc. directly defies this. It creates and allows space for accountability to one another, for real friendship, and for care. In Jamaica, where I’m from, our national motto is ‘Out of Many, One People’- a reminder that we are, and have always been, a collective.
WHAT MAKES YOU ANGRY?
How quickly dangerous, bigoted, and unfounded talking points become legitimised within the mainstream as ‘rational debate’ (think ‘moral panic’ and demonisation of trans/non binary people, asylum seekers, those who rely on the welfare state etc. or just the normalisation of red pill content).
Bio
My background is in advocacy and disability support work, and much of my work experience has centred around working directly with young people and vulnerable communities facing structural barriers within state services. From being an Executive Assistant to a CEO of a grassroots art-as-activism organisation, to working with Hackney Council to support young people with SEND, the commitment to building infrastructure for meaningful systemic change through youth work and community organising is work that I admire and have been engaged in for some time, especially since graduating university. Outside of work I do commissioned portraits/art, and in my free time I’m usually binge watching one of my favourite comfort series, reading, or thinking about new holiday destinations I’d like to travel to.
