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On Not Getting It and the Stay-Safe Sequence
The stay-safe sequence isn’t news to black people. This is my husband and my son and I still didn’t get it. I was complicit. No More.
keep your love and light, we want justice
When “Love and Light” is proposed by spiritual leaders as an appropriate response to DEATH and discrimination, I name it for what it is: white privilege.
Business Tip for Culture Makers #626: Reconsider Your Payment Plans because Charging Extra for Payment Plans Can Be Exploitative
I’m looking around at our empowerment spaces at the payment plans being offered and I’m seeing some arguably predatory practices.
the link between our buying habits and our vote
Likability, authority. Marketing designed to automatically trigger particular behaviours has political consequences: we get in the habit of obeying.
Liking Someone Can Be Terrible Information
When someone is trying to get us to like them and they have a commercial interest vested in us liking them, you need more information before proceeding.
Business Tip for Culture Makers #527: Pledge to Only Speak at Events/Podcasts that are SUBSTANTIALLY Inclusive
Women with other dominant identities – white, cis, straight, able-bodied, thin – can leverage their privilege, power, and platforms to make new norms.
on the abuse of reciprocity and women
When it comes to reciprocity, a justice lever, some of us activate the need to reciprocate in order to disproportionately advantage ourselves over others.
On the ‘Mental Triggers’ of Online Marketing, The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, Assessing Who Deserves Your Money, and Why We Should Be Skeptical of Makeover Stories
Want to know if someone is trying, by design, to construct an authoritarian dynamic to “mentally trigger” you to buy from them? Look for makeover stories.
Pursuing Work-Life Balance Preserves the Status Quo
Women are not failing to lean in and we’re not failing at work-life balance; work and life – which is to say, our society – are failing us.
Not Every Man is a Patriarch. Not Every Patriarch is a Man.
The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is about a few people learning how to switch positions in the existing hierarchy: that hierarchy is white patriarchy.
