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Friday Bookshelf: Alice Walker (opens the original)
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Regular readers will have noticed something about this series. One woman keeps walking into it.She waded through the snakes and waist-high weeds of a Fort Pierce cemetery in 1973 to find Zora Neale Hurston’s unmarked grave, then paid for the headstone herself. She wrote the foreword that finally carried Barracoon into the world. She sat on the shelf a young Andrea Levy raided in North London, searching for Black voices. She stood at a book signing in 1989 and wrote three words, “Don’t give up!”,
Psychological Safety Is Not About Comfort. It Is About What Honesty Costs Your Employees (opens the original)
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Psychological safety is not about protecting employees from hard conversations. It is about making sure honesty never costs them their standing, their reputation, or their job. 🌻I want to start there because the phrase has been so thoroughly mangled that leaders now use it to mean the opposite of what it means. It has been folded into wellbeing programmes, printed on posters, mentioned in onboarding decks, and quietly redefined as a workplace where nobody has to hear anything difficult.That is n
Microaggression Mondays: "Where are you really from?" (opens the original)
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Curiosity isn’t the problemWanting to know where someone is from is human. Accents travel, names carry history, and plenty of good workplace friendships have started with “Where did you grow up?” Asking once, listening to the answer and moving on is simply conversation.The problem is the follow-upThe microaggression lives in the second question. “No, but where are you really from?” tells someone their first answer, whether that’s Birmingham, Toronto or Houston, has been rejected because it doesn
Friday Bookshelf: Zora Neale Hurston (opens the original)
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Most lives get told from the beginning. This one has to be told backward, because the ending is the part the world tried hardest to bury, and you cannot understand the girl until you have stood in the weeds where they left the woman. Friday means another of my favorite Black authors, and this week belongs to a woman who was found by a stranger with her foot in a hole. 📚<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fYzF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
Ed Sheeran Is Not Staying Out of Politics. He Is Just Selective, Like Most Cowards Are. 🤷🏾♀️ (opens the original)
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The problem with white men like Ed Sheeran is that their niceness has always been a reflection of their privilege, and it comes with a limit. That limit is the first moment comfort, convenience or profit is threatened. Most famously nice men are never tested in public. Over the past ten days, Ed Sheeran was, and the answer arrived within a week. 🎤The sequence matters, so let me walk through it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2I5K!,f_auto
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