Audit Inclusion
Meeting technical accessibility requirements without emotional, cultural, or practical relevance. Inclusion that checks boxes but misses the point.
Institutional mimicry happens when a system imitates care, inclusion, or reform to protect itself from criticism — without making meaningful changes. These terms help decode what’s real and what’s theatre.
Meeting technical accessibility requirements without emotional, cultural, or practical relevance. Inclusion that checks boxes but misses the point.
Rebranding a service with inclusive words or new graphics while leaving the original exclusionary design unchanged.
When programs pretend to centre disability or trauma-informed leadership but retain control, edit lived experience, and deny genuine co-design or authorship.
Framing a project as inclusive in grant documents to secure funding — then delivering something inaccessible, gatekept, or performative.
Offering tokenistic roles or visibility while keeping decision-making power behind closed doors. Inclusion as branding, not equity.