Equality
DEI is Officially Dead. Here’s What Your Organization Should Pivot to Now
Let those who have ears, hear
Let’s face it. DEI was in its death throes long before November 5th. After a brief golden era from June to December of 2020, the shine had mostly worn off of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion rose.
During 2021, articles were popping up left and right about how Chief diversity officers were being hired left and right, and none of them were given the support needed to effectively do their jobs. Forbes Magazine published an article in 2023 about how Chief Diversity Officers are often set up to fail.
As a certified DEI professional, I would like to say: good riddance to bad rubbish.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in and of themselves are phrases and concepts rooted in white supremacy. Diversity exists in any room with more than one person. Even in a visibly empty room, a biodiversity of microscopic life is teaming and thriving on common surfaces.
But the American ideal of diversity is a comfortable shorthand for: people who are not cishet white men. It benefits white supremacy to think of diversity in this way, because it allows the oppressor class to conflate race, gender, ethnicity, culture, language groups, SOGIESC identity, and neurodivergence…
