The Rights Collective

The Rights Collective is a group of South Asian womxn who are looking to tackle the distinct and often subtle ways in which disempowerment, inequality, trauma, and harm manifests within the South Asian diaspora community in the U.K. The group works to better understand how gendered experiences manifest in community spaces and how a shift towards justice, equity, and harm reduction can be facilitated. The group’s collective and individual experiences have shown them how certain practices, deeply embedded socio-cultural norms and the ‘immigrant’ experience can negatively shape and uphold notions of what womxn should be. The group carries out its work through three pathways: breaking the silence, cultivating a new culture, and co-creating spaces for support.