PinnedThe Hand White Supremacy Dealt Us: Black Panther’s Wakanda Forever(SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS) Initially, my first thought was, I HATE THIS. They killed Queen Ramonda. They killed the Queen! C’mon! Even Angela Bassett was not going for it! Namor had the audacity to step up into Wakanda unannounced and uninvited and had the nerve to place demands on the Queen…Wakandaforever7 min readWakandaforever7 min read
Published in Momentum·PinnedThe Mistakes We Make are Fixable…If We’re WillingI think I’ve told over 1000+ people that making mistakes is a thing that we all do. As a DEI Consultant, I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve made a mistake. Whether it was from misgendering someone to using incorrect language when referring to a particular identity. …Diversity And Inclusion7 min readDiversity And Inclusion7 min read
Nov 1, 2022My Black Feminism is RaggedyA couple of weeks ago I witnessed two Black women who I love deeply have a…situation. It was definitely a “Knuck if You Buck” situation. Needless to say, the fallout of this particular situation left me feeling deeply angry, hurt, disappointed, and clueless. Even though it's been a couple of…Blackwomenmatter5 min readBlackwomenmatter5 min read
Aug 3, 2022DEI is not (just) about a paycheckI have been traveling recently for work and pleasure. One of the things that I've noticed in my travel is the number of people who are “doing” DEI work. My partner and I discussed the fact that three years ago before the murder of George Floyd; before the pandemic (that…Diversity And Inclusion8 min readDiversity And Inclusion8 min read
Jun 21, 2022Happy PrideI want to start this article with a post that I wrote on Facebook not long after the Pulse club murders in 2016. Written July 13, 2016 Today I am thinking about the families who found out for the first time that their murdered child was gay. Today I am…LGBTQ7 min readLGBTQ7 min read
Jun 20, 2022Colorism (Part II): Black Woman/White WomanWhen the episode of Colorism came up in the series Black-ish I was hesitant to watch it. I was never a huge fan of Rainbow as she always seemed to brush off Dre’s issues about race. Rainbow’s “journey” to find out if she was in fact Black struck me as…Biracial8 min readBiracial8 min read
Jun 2, 2022Top 5 Problematic Folks that attend Race-based DEI WorkshopsSo I was perusing Medium the other day and I came across this great article entitled, “5 Types Of White People Who Stopped Talking To Me Because I Write About Racism” by Rebecca Stevens A. And it got me thinking about the 5 types of folks we regularly see in…Racism8 min readRacism8 min read
May 31, 2022Colorism: Safe to White folk; Dangerous to Black folkLet me tell you a story… I was in sixth grade and I was one of four girls in a class of 30 students. Yes, four girls and 26 boys most, if not all, were Black kids from the surrounding area that I just moved into. I had spent the…Colorism9 min readColorism9 min read
May 25, 2022White PrivilegeIt’s not about the stuff it's about the obstacles “Privilege is not about an abundance of opportunity, it is an absence of obstacles” In researching “white privilege” I came across a 2020 article from NPR about the book, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a…White Privilege8 min readWhite Privilege8 min read
May 18, 2022Top 5 Ways DEI Work FailsAnd why you should work harder to ensure it doesn’t! I’ve been a professional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultant for a little over 5 years. However, I’ve been doing what we call “the work” for close to 16 years. In the time I’ve been doing “the work” I have…Diversity And Inclusion5 min readDiversity And Inclusion5 min read
