Reflections

WhatsApp is used for team communication and after-hours messaging especially in hybrid working environments. Unlike informal face-to-face conversations, these messages create a digital record that can be disclosed in legal proceedings. Increasingly, such records are being cited in employment tribunals, particularly in claims involving harassment, discrimination, or unfair dismissal…

Sexual harassment continues to shape the realities of many workplaces in 2025, often in ways that are difficult to detect or address. While updated data for this year is still emerging, recent studies highlight the persistence of the issue—particularly in the United Kingdom and Kenya. Alongside the personal impact, the organisational and financial consequences are becoming more visible.

Following our previous discussion on the prevalence of workplace sexual harassment in Kenya and the UK, this piece turns to progress, specifically how anti-harassment training is shaping more respectful, responsive, and resilient workplace cultures.

Conversations around menstrual leave and menopause support continue to evolve in both the UK and Kenya. As workplaces strive for inclusivity, attention to women’s health needs, particularly during menstruation and menopause is becoming increasingly significant.

This article explores the meaning of justice for women of colour who’ve experienced gendered violence, in conversation with analysis of Nina Simone’s performances of two songs.

Nina Simone’s rendition of the song, ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’, is a yearning for justice and respect against deliberate misunderstanding, including of herself. It is a haunting melody and its lyrics, which invoke a sense of vulnerability resonate because they speak to that part of us which wants to be understood. It may remind some of us dealing with the shadows of trauma of gendered abuse that more than anything else we want justice and what it means in the context of our lived experiences to be heard.