@wanderersofcolour climbing festival. First ever climbing festival by and for black people and people of colour in Europe. We made it happen! Over 80 climbers of colour aged 18 to 64 climbing together in the Peak District for three beautiful days.
Highs:
- opening up the festival by climbing with — as sweet as he is strong — Aidan Roberts
- closing it out at water-cum-jolly cos
@anesumm insisted on climbing outside for her
@steep_learning_group session despite the pouring rain 💪🏼
- Bristol 🍌
-
@jojo_yuen_ and
@ben.ing.jam winning the crash pads in the raffle. No one deserves them more.
- Tawfiq bringing their dad
- hearing
@ife__iyanu speak about the community she has built that made this event happen. We all did a cry.
Lows:
-
@roxannagbaz and
@ainarapol , the media team, catching me expressing breast milk into the bracken (cameras down thank fuck). No time to pump and needs must.
- the driving
- the driving
- the driving
- the driving
- the driving
In 2022, 55% of black people had a full driving licence, compared with 78% of white people. 32% of black people had no access to a car or van, compared with 15% of white people and 17% of Asian people. Bring in the intersectional barriers of age, income, income background and disability that Wanderers is tackling and it’s no surprise that we’re low on licences: it nearly broke me and I did way less than the minibus driver
@jojo_yuen_ 💪🏼🚌.
I’m taking names for chauffeur volunteers for 2026, sign up in my DMs.
