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In August 2020, Equity Unbound collaborated with OneHE to curate community building resources for online teaching. We, Maha and Mia, together with Autumn Caines, in our roles as leaders of Equity Unbound and Virtually Connecting, were the lead curators. The resources themselves were a response to multiple global inequities. In the context of the pandemic, community building was more important and urgent than ever, it needed to happen online and few people knew how to do it well. The OneHE-Equity Unbound resources were created and shared with Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) with the following in mind: anticipating potential inequalities faced by learners and offering adaptations for educators according to their own context. Diverse educators from the Global South and North were involved, so the creation itself was an inclusive process. In this chapter, we start by describing Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) followed by our experiences of practising it when doing introductory activities, warm-up activities and finally ongoing engagement and Liberating Structures.