Tash (she/her) is an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker and LGBTQ+ activist, who is at the forefront of conversation. Tash uses her lived experience and identity as a proud Black Queer Woman to continue the focus on diversity and inclusion in society and in the workplace. Tash feels that her intersectionality can provide valuable insight into how to make both the workplace and world a more diverse and equitable place.

Tash is the Co-Founder of ‘Breaking the Distance’, a unique LGBTQIA+ platform, created to provide positive Queer representation on social media.

Queer people have to navigate homophobia, biphobia and transphobia all the time, because their world is heteronormative, mononormative and controlled by a cisgendered narrative.

Navigating this world creates ‘minority stress’ (expectations of prejudice, internalised homophobia, concealing, hiding, etc.).

‘Minority stress’ is chronic and over time it becomes a burden on our nervous system and impacts our mental health negatively. It’s important to be aware of ‘minority stress’ so that we can pay attention to our self-care, and reach out to our meaningful connections, which is one of the best strategies to counter ‘minority stress’.