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Injustice: A feature or a bug?

Why telling truth to power is so often exhausting and traumatic.

Mar 30, 2022

Mar 30, 2022

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On intent, justice, consequences and accountability

How do we get more comfortable acknowledging that there is a spectrum of behaviours, actions and attitudes which deny people justice. A lot…

Feb 18, 2022

Feb 18, 2022

What’s wrong with you?

What’s wrong with you?

Jun 24, 2022

Jun 24, 2022

10 Commandments for public and philanthropic spending

Thou shalt seek to understand what life is like for people who are poor and who lack a sense of agency and control over their lives through…

Aug 29, 2021

Aug 29, 2021

It’s Partly our Fault!

Every time someone who is living through hell tells me about their circumstances it hits me like an Express train. The raw emotion which…

Aug 16, 2021

Aug 16, 2021

Lived Experience Matters

In this blog I’ve been grappling with some issues I feel very strongly about. I’ve had to re-read it several times to check the extent of…

Jul 26, 2021

Jul 26, 2021

Why we need to stop letting the privileged define value!

Person A is a university educated heterosexual white male. Person A experienced childhood trauma and years of substance abuse and mental…

May 31, 2021

Why we need to stop letting the privileged define value!

May 31, 2021

Feeding beasts and boiling eggs

Another week on the Elephants Trail, with stops on route via Housing First, GM Systems Changers and Our Agency! Questioning when people in…

Dec 5, 2020

Dec 5, 2020

Cost of entry

Why civil society needs to change our understanding of whose responsibility it is to ‘give back’.

Nov 21, 2020

Nov 21, 2020

Selfish, reckless, stupid?

This is Piers Morgan’s response to the anti-lockdown protests, part of a somewhat predictable reaction to the anti-lockdown protests from…

Nov 14, 2020

Nov 14, 2020

Matthew Kidd

Matthew Kidd

I work alongside communities on their own terms and try to help them bring about systemic change. I'm both inspired and frustrated on a daily basis.str

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