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Injustice: A feature or a bug?

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

4 min readMar 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…

5 min readFeb 18, 2022

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What’s wrong with you?

What’s wrong with you?

4 min readJun 24, 2022

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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…

5 min readAug 29, 2021

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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…

8 min readAug 16, 2021

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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…

8 min readJul 26, 2021

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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…

6 min readMay 31, 2021

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Why we need to stop letting the privileged define value!

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Matthew Kidd

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…

8 min readDec 5, 2020

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Cost of entry

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

7 min readNov 21, 2020

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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…

6 min readNov 14, 2020

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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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