Dear DEI Practitioners, as we explore what we are grateful for this season, I believe we need to center our embodiment and well-being more. We need each other. To do things differently. To learn to do things differently, even as capitalism (job security, pressures to give, perform, conform, etc.) makes it difficult and will still be here.
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There’s something at play in our culture that reinforces DEI folks, organizers, care workers, and others in this pattern of feeling overburdened, overcommitted, and forgetting about ourselves. There’s so much to do and change, and often limited resources. Consider: On a scale of 1-10, how often do you override your feelings and needs?
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This Women’s Herstory Month, I want to encourage you consider how patriarchy, sexism, and cissexism show up in your systems and interactions and can have harmful impacts across all genders. How are you interrupting sexism and cissexism throughout your days? How does this help you align your values to your workplace culture?
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It has been a challenging few years — a meandering and confusing time. People have given a lot. Held a lot. And there is much more. Undone. Unprocessed. Unsaid. Unraveling. Growing. I believe many people want to have a positive impact and at the same time, have been taught to minimize/ignore differences and the depths of diverging and shared histories. Until more of us can be with those histories and our diverging and shared realities today, I feel we miss something core to our humanity. One way to seek to bring more awareness and intentionality to our interactions is to cultivate intercultural competence.
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