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From Equality to Equity: Designing for True Accessibility

December 8, 2026, 4:00 - 5:30 PM CET

Treating everyone exactly the same does not solve historical injustices because our starting points are inherently unequal. To create genuine solidarity, we must focus on customized solutions rather than generalized good intentions.

Using the famous illustration of the spectators at the stadium wall, this session dives deep into the functional differences between equality and equity. We will explore the broader meaning of accessibility, looking at how organizations unknowingly create invisible barriers to participation—such as lacking childcare or missing curriculum adjustments—even when offering financial aid or bursaries.

The workshop will guide you through auditing your group’s internal processes, meetings, and physical or digital architectures so that the very tissue of your movement is formed around equity and deep transformation.

Suggested Contribution

(See details of our approach to radical economics here)

Presemters

Alex

Location:

United Kingdom

Alex has been designing and facilitating training, geared towards social and personal transformation, for over a decade. They have been part of building long term programs for sustainable activism and psycho-social resilience which have informed Ulex’s work, and coordinated multiple international projects to support propagating this work throughout Europe. Their commitment to social justice and history of activism have involved them in direct action and affinity group work focused on climate justice, anti-capitalism, queer politics and gender identity. As part of the Ulex team, they are involved in project coordination, resource development and course facilitation.

Gee

Location:

Catalunya

G has been involved in social movement organising and education since the late 1980’s. He is a highly regarded trainer and has designed numerous training programmes covering areas such as psychosocial resilience in activism, the ecology of social movements, and leaderful organising. As a founding member of the Ulex Project, he is known for highly innovative work blending pedagogical methodologies. This holistic approach to activist learning has inspired numerous training initiatives across Europe. He currently steers the strategic development of the Ulex Project and its social movement capacity building programme.

Hilal Demir

Location:

Catalunya

Hilal Demir, an anarcha-queer DJing at home is an activist, trainer, facilitator for 20 + years and has experience on organizing, strategizing on nonviolent direct action, campaign and social movement levels, working with power, active solidarity, resilience, repression and security. She is passionate about leading informal learning experiences, community organizing, group dynamics and organisational cultures, supporting activists and organizations to build long lasting transformative social movements for a just future.

Neus

Location:

United Kingdom

Neus has been passionate about education since she was 8 years old and went dumpster diving in teachers’ recycling bins for worksheets to help other students learn at break-time. They moved from Castellon to Scotland to study Community Education, with a focus on youth work and adult education, where she co-founded The New Leaf Co-op, a successful workers’ co-op in Edinburgh. Whilst there Neus developed their understanding of how productivity meets good working conditions meets overturning the food system meets resourcing the commons with resilient and democratically managed capital. These passions now underpin her multiple roles at Ulex; from team culture and coordination to training and writing funding applications.