Posts Tagged ‘Work’
First Boi In: Dressing Queer in the Corporate World
You never really forget the day you realize you’re the first of a kind that those around you have ever encountered. That was this author’s experience of being a masculine of center woman in a corporate office complete with assumptions about how gender and sexuality should be presented in the workplace. Here’s a deeper conversation about gender dress codes.
Read More5 Most Ridiculous Facts About Maternity Leave in the US
For a country so taken with the idea of “family values,” the United States does a remarkably terrible job at helping people start families. We’re the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have a law guaranteeing that new mothers receive paid maternity leave. And in most workplaces, paternity leave remains unheard of. So what do we need to know, and how can we fix it?
Read MoreYou Call It Professionalism; I Call It Oppression in a Three-Piece Suit
How comfortable do you feel in a three-piece suit? “Professionalism” is a social construct, and like all social constructs, it’s a total downer. Standards of looking professional uphold a lot of ugly “isms,” as policies with a racist, sexist, classist, and xenophobic core. Here’s the truth about why the work we do should speak more loudly than how we look.
Read MoreHow Teaching Can Support Gender-Variant Children
Toys, clothes, games – you could probably name dozens of ways society creates rigid gender boxes around us from a young age. But do you know how much those boxes can oppress gender-variant children? Here’s one teacher’s story about the impact and importance of breaking down gender norms. Learn how she taught all her students that it’s okay to be different.
Read MoreDiversity Is Not A Certificate: How to Dismantle Oppression at Your Work Place
Want to create true diversity? The first step is knowing it’s going to come through hard work, not a certificate or a one-time event. We need true diversity, which is very different from its gross cousin “diversity.” Read this article to learn the difference, and get concrete strategies for reforming the systemic problems in the culture around you.
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