Queer Parenting, Race & Intersectionality: What Truly Inclusive Workplaces Must Understand
Training overview
The conversation about LGBTQ+ inclusion rarely goes deep enough. It often stops at visibility and allyship and almost never reaches the complex, layered realities of those who exist at the intersection of queerness, race, parenthood and identity. This keynote does exactly that. Drawing on her own lived experience as a Black queer woman and parent, Tash explores what it means to build a family, raise a child, and show up professionally when your life sits outside every assumed norm. This is not just a session about LGBTQ+ inclusion, it is a masterclass in intersectionality, belonging and what organisations must truly understand if they want every person to bring their whole self to work.
Key takeaways
A deeper understanding of intersectionality in practice and how overlapping identities shape lived experience in ways that single-axis inclusion approaches miss
Insight into the specific and often invisible challenges faced by LGBTQ parents and particularly queer parents of colour in workplace and societal contexts
A challenge to organisations to examine whose experiences are centred and whose are still being left out in their inclusion strategies
Practical steps for building cultures where people with complex layered identities feel genuinely seen supported and value
Tash Koster-Thomas
Inclusive Leadership & Cultural Intelligence Expert
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