Nursery World - Staff Health & Wellbeing: Part 9

Wellbeing depends on all aspects of identity being respected. Charlotte Goddard considers issues around intersectionality

The theme for last year’s Early Years Wellbeing Week, which took place in October 2021, was ‘This is Me’. The week, led by consultant and trainer Kate Moxley, focused on mental health in an unequal world.

‘2020 highlighted inequalities due to race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, and the lack of respect for human rights, including for people living with mental health conditions,’ says Moxley. ‘Such inequalities have an impact on people’s mental health.’

Intersectionality is a way of looking at how different aspects of a person’s identity can combine to create different types of discrimination, with some people facing multiple disadvantages due to a combination of factors. The ‘This Is Me’ theme aimed to raise awareness of these issues, but also to empower early years colleagues to share and celebrate intersections of their identity.

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