I’m committing to rest: my sabbatical
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” -Zora Neale Hurston Deeply tired, emotionally exhausted Black women seem to be the norm. Many of us watched our mothers, and grandmothers, and aunts, continue to take on more, and more, and...
You can’t talk about race if you ain’t gonna talk about power
Race is a human-invented concept used to categorize people with devastating consequences. White supremacy is the system of power used to create and reinforce those consequences. Race is more than skin color and hair texture. It is more than boxes or categories we like...
Work Cultures Should Not Consume Us
I have a question, what do you think your life would look like if everything (or even a few!) of the below were reality? Universal health care Universal sick-leave benefits Universal childcare and elder care National parental/care-giver leave policy Thriving wage...
We Are More Than Our Time, Productivity & Output
Time is a construct. 9-5 workday is a construct. Having to “earn” sick days is a construct. That meetings should last 30 minutes or 60 minutes is a construct. Only 48 hours for a weekend is a construct. 15 minute breaks 2x a day is a construct. 2 weeks PTO is a...
My Summer Reading List! – Time to turn the pages…
It’s August and it's time for my summer break. I take off every August to reset and renew prior to the Fall overwhelm, which always hits my firm as we wrap up client work for the year. I savor this time – I stare at the ocean, I eat ALL the seafood in sight, I nap,...
There’s no equity without reproductive justice: We will continue fighting for each other
Many of y'all know that every day I get up and say aloud my grounding vision for equity work. It is the famous quote from Assata Shakur: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to...
Racism hurts white folks too
Hello friends, The majority of my work focuses on how people from dominant groups oppress others and benefit from systems of oppression and inequality. But something that we don't talk about enough is the cost of oppression for people in dominant groups. I want to...
Do y’all want it, or do you want to say you did it?
We are on-boarded into organizations with assumptions and roles, mechanics, and structures of power and oppression already in place. When we do the work of creating equity, we begin to dismantle these assumptions and mechanics. We unveil things about our organizations...
Freedom School Returns
It's that time y'all, we're about to kick off another year of Freedom School! This year will be the last that we offer it and I hope you'll consider joining us. I’ve been spending a lot of time in my library working on this year's curriculum --as usual, it's going to...