Living Our Best Intersectional Lives: Journeys Through Race, Disability, Queerness, Culture, and Belonging (Panel event)

The recording for this event has been made available on our YouTube channel. Alternatively, you can view it above.

No one exists within a single identity. For disabled LGBTQ+ people of colour, for queer immigrants, for those navigating class, culture, family, and belonging all at once, the experience of inequality is rarely simple or singular. It is layered, compounding, and deeply personal. This event, presented by ParaPride in partnership with Inclusion London, centres those layered experiences – and asks what justice, inclusion, and a truly intersectional life can look like.

Co-hosted by Faryal Velmi of Inclusion London and ParaPride co-founder Daniele Lul, this panel creates space for an honest and expansive conversation about how overlapping systems of inequality shape access to opportunity, community, and a sense of belonging. How do disabled Black and brown queer people navigate spaces that were not built for them? What does it mean to hold an identity that is recognised by some and rendered invisible by others? And how do cultural and family dynamics, the weight of stigma, the complexity of faith, the negotiation of queerness within immigrant communities – shape the way people move through the world?

Our speakers bring rich and varied expertise to these questions. Alex Vasquez contributes a perspective shaped by personal and political engagement at multiple intersections of identity. Donna Jones, based at London Metropolitan University, brings academic insight into the structural dimensions of inequality. This is a conversation about barriers – but also about beauty, resistance, and the power of living fully and authentically at the intersection of all that we are.