Beverley Duguid

Company Secretary

Beverley has been an attendee of UK Black Pride since the first event and assumed the pivotal role of Secretary to the UK Black Pride Board in early 2008.

Now approaching the culmination of her PhD on ‘Women’s Perspectives of Travel in the 19th Century’ Beverly is writing up her thesis with the mantra, “Almost finished. Almost there!” chiming through her head.

Prior to pursuing her academic interests Beverley worked in the education and public sector too. She has long held an interest in gender equality issues, particularly in education, and has fulfilled a number of rewarding placements in the voluntary sector supporting women’s organisations. Beverley is also very creative and has had her literary works published in Chroma (2004).

Beverley is inspired by Audre Lorde’s analysis of difference in Sister Outsider: ‘history conditions us to see human difference in simplistic opposition to each other, rejection of difference is an absolute necessity, we have all been programmed to respond to human differences between us with fear and loathing’. This dissection of the human condition has moved Beverley to work with UK Black Pride to achieve its objective of reaching many nationalities and groups within the rich spectrum of the Black LGBT community. For Beverley, perhaps this challenging goal surpasses all others.