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Continue reading →: I Know Why the Caged Employee SingsIn 1969 American poet and writer Maya Angelou wrote an autobiography called “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” That’s where this blog title came from. In the book she talked about racism and sexism in her early years, feeling alone, trapped by her blackness, her talents stifled. I can…
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Continue reading →: Trans Fear Goes Beyond Bathroom PoliciesSo North Carolina has been all over the news for what many have dubbed “The Bathroom Bill.” I’ve been doing a lot of head shaking over it, when I wasn’t thanking my lucky stars I was born and raised in Chicago, and spared a lot of the foolishness that people…
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Continue reading →: Being Inclusive Starts Early — Like, Grade-School EarlyIntersectionality is an interesting thing. It’s defined roughly as an idea used to describe ways in which oppressive institutions like racism, sexism, homophobia and classism are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. It’s interesting, and it’s complicated. I’d venture to say the complexity of the subject matter…
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Continue reading →: Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and All Lives MatterI had no plans to blog this week. I was content to bask quietly in my latest accolade – thank you so so much Folio for naming me on of the top women in media for 2016 *cheese* – that and I had little miners testing their pick axes out…
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Continue reading →: The Skin We’re InSo I learned something interesting this week. Actually, interesting probably isn’t the right adjective. It was more disturbing. A colleague and I were talking, and he revealed that for the first six months he worked at our company — we’ve been working together for many years now — he was…
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Continue reading →: Flying While BlackConference season has begun with a bang. I’ve attended two in the past 10 days: the Forum on Workplace Inclusion for diversity and inclusion professionals and the Spring 2016 CLO Symposium for learning and development leaders — both of which I’ve attended many times before. Conferences, these two in particular,…
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Continue reading →: Women Don’t Know Everything About Gender IssuesI know, I know. You’re in shock from that title, but it’s true. We don’t. Minorities don’t know everything about diversity. Black people don’t know everything about black people. Women don’t know everything about other women. Gay people don’t know everything about LGBT, etc. We can’t. There’s too much information…
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Continue reading →: Zoe Saldana and the Case of Too Light to Be RightSo, the trailer for the upcoming Nina Simone biopic was released, and the Internet has gone wild with commentary this week, most of it against lead actress Zoe Saldana. It can’t compete with a nude Kim Kardashian West shot in terms of sheer click power, but calling Saldana’s portrayal of the…
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Continue reading →: Kesha and the Root of All EvilI’m starting to think that money is indeed the root of all evil for two reasons. One, I had a conversation with a former chief diversity officer this week who left corporate America to start up his own firm. He still fields quite a few calls from companies looking to…
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