Part 1: The Forgotten Voices in Gender and Racial Equity
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05/28/21 • 31 min
Black feminism broadly incorporates these principles:
Black women’s experience of racism, sexism and classism are inseparable.
Our needs and worldviews are distinct from those of Black men and white women.
There is no contradiction between the struggle against racism, sexism and all other-isms. All must be addressed simultaneously.
Despite this, the work of Black feminists was co-opted for a feminism movement which repeatedly left them out. In the present day, the calls for gender equality has focused almost exclusively on white women and even in the business world, we are excluded.
Amanda, Anastasia and I have a very candid and honest conversation about our experiences. In fact, we got into so much, I have split the episodes so Part B will air next week.
If you recognise that your racial equity and gender representation strategy is missing the nuance of addressing Black women, this podcast episode should be compulsory listening. We bring you closer to a subject not often talked about in this way.
Amanda Bennett is an educator, consultant, and writer living in Durham, North Carolina. As an educator and storyteller, she cultivates innovative ways of using language to guide people toward internal transformation, self-awareness and social awareness. Drawing on these facilitation skills, she also works as a consultant and developmental evaluator. She outlines her framework for a Black feminist future in her poetry, essays and short fiction, which have appeared on her blog and in publications such as Jellyfish Poetry, Murder Journal, The Huffington Post and The Atlantic.
Website: http://herfoolishwit.blogspot.com/
Anastasia Kārkliņa is a PhD-trained cultural analyst who helps brands build culturally intelligent, incisive, and inclusive strategy. Anastasia blends her academic expertise in cultural analysis and semiotics with interdisciplinary qualitative research methodologies to excavate human and cultural insight that is astutely attuned to emergent trends. Based at Duke University, she specializes in the study of U.S. culture and society, with a focus on racial and gender issues in contemporary media and culture.
Website and social media links:
Instagram and TikTok at @defineandempower.co.
We all have to start somewhere - find out if your organisation is as inclusive as it should be by taking our Equity and Inclusion test - https://hr-rewired.scoreapp.com/
Connect with me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shereen-daniels/
And don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review, if you feel inspired to do so.
Ps Are you coming to the conference? https://www.advancing-racial-equity.com
Subscribe/follow on all major podcast platforms including Apple, Spotify and Audible, for more bi-weekly insightful conversations and if you feel compelled, leave us a comment as I appreciate all feedback!
Black feminism broadly incorporates these principles:
Black women’s experience of racism, sexism and classism are inseparable.
Our needs and worldviews are distinct from those of Black men and white women.
There is no contradiction between the struggle against racism, sexism and all other-isms. All must be addressed simultaneously.
Despite this, the work of Black feminists was co-opted for a feminism movement which repeatedly left them out. In the present day, the calls for gender equality has focused almost exclusively on white women and even in the business world, we are excluded.
Amanda, Anastasia and I have a very candid and honest conversation about our experiences. In fact, we got into so much, I have split the episodes so Part B will air next week.
If you recognise that your racial equity and gender representation strategy is missing the nuance of addressing Black women, this podcast episode should be compulsory listening. We bring you closer to a subject not often talked about in this way.
Amanda Bennett is an educator, consultant, and writer living in Durham, North Carolina. As an educator and storyteller, she cultivates innovative ways of using language to guide people toward internal transformation, self-awareness and social awareness. Drawing on these facilitation skills, she also works as a consultant and developmental evaluator. She outlines her framework for a Black feminist future in her poetry, essays and short fiction, which have appeared on her blog and in publications such as Jellyfish Poetry, Murder Journal, The Huffington Post and The Atlantic.
Website: http://herfoolishwit.blogspot.com/
Anastasia Kārkliņa is a PhD-trained cultural analyst who helps brands build culturally intelligent, incisive, and inclusive strategy. Anastasia blends her academic expertise in cultural analysis and semiotics with interdisciplinary qualitative research methodologies to excavate human and cultural insight that is astutely attuned to emergent trends. Based at Duke University, she specializes in the study of U.S. culture and society, with a focus on racial and gender issues in contemporary media and culture.
Website and social media links:
Instagram and TikTok at @defineandempower.co.
We all have to start somewhere - find out if your organisation is as inclusive as it should be by taking our Equity and Inclusion test - https://hr-rewired.scoreapp.com/
Connect with me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shereen-daniels/
And don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review, if you feel inspired to do so.
Ps Are you coming to the conference? https://www.advancing-racial-equity.com
Subscribe/follow on all major podcast platforms including Apple, Spotify and Audible, for more bi-weekly insightful conversations and if you feel compelled, leave us a comment as I appreciate all feedback!
Previous Episode
This Is Me, Take It Or Leave It
Aisha is a student at the University of Edinburgh and during the summer of last year, she led the charge, mobilising over 8,000 students to ask the university one question: What are you doing about racism?
In discussing her bravery, but also what scared her, Aisha is an inspirational individual who is resolute in making an impact and incorporating social justice into the way she wants to live her life.
She is adamant that she is not going to fit into this little box society has carved out for her, her ancestors and is trying to carve out for her future generations.
She is a Black Nigerian Muslim who is studying architecture and her parting words were:
“Use your voice. Don’t let anybody come and silence you. The entire world will rally around you for doing the right thing.”
Connect with Aisha on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aisha-janki-akinola/
Subscribe/follow on all major podcast platforms including Apple, Spotify and Audible, for more bi-weekly insightful conversations and if you feel compelled, leave us a comment as I appreciate all feedback!
Next Episode
Part 2: Can There Ever Be Genuine Friendship Between Black women and White women?
For the episode notes this week, let me just share some quotes from Amanda and Anastasia. If this doesn’t want to make you listen in, I don’t know what will!
“When we do see the Black woman, she’s always adjacent to the white women’s hero journey.
We are fed these images so often we never question the underlying message it portrays.” - Amanda
“The historical awareness of the relationship between Black and white women means as a white woman, I should always be asking myself: what do I bring to the table? It’s a question of reciprocity.” - Anatasia
Amanda Bennett is an educator, consultant, and writer living in Durham, North Carolina. As an educator and storyteller, she cultivates innovative ways of using language to guide people toward internal transformation, self-awareness and social awareness. Drawing on these facilitation skills, she also works as a consultant and developmental evaluator. She outlines her framework for a Black feminist future in her poetry, essays and short fiction, which have appeared on her blog and in publications such as Jellyfish Poetry, Murder Journal, The Huffington Post and The Atlantic.
Website: http://herfoolishwit.blogspot.com/
Anastasia Kārkliņa is a PhD-trained cultural analyst who helps brands build culturally intelligent, incisive, and inclusive strategy. Anastasia blends her academic expertise in cultural analysis and semiotics with interdisciplinary qualitative research methodologies to excavate human and cultural insight that is astutely attuned to emergent trends. Based at Duke University, she specializes in the study of U.S. culture and society, with a focus on racial and gender issues in contemporary media and culture.
Website and social media links:
Instagram and TikTok at @defineandempower.co.
Subscribe/follow on all major podcast platforms including Apple, Spotify and Audible, for more bi-weekly insightful conversations and if you feel compelled, leave us a comment as I appreciate all feedback!
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