The State of Trans Rights Today

· Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary

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In this Episode

· A brief introduction to Riki Wilchins and their work, including the founding of GenderPAC, the first transgender rights advocacy group in the United States

· The increased attacks on trans employees and what businesses can do to protect and support them

· How Generation Z is responding to the increase in attacks on transgender folks, including trans youth and their parents by the media and politicians

· Gender pronouns, microaggressions towards trans people, how Wilchins incorporates trans inclusivity and intersectionality in their DEI work

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· Riki Wilchins

· TrueChild

· Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary

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A "Zoomer’s" Perspective: White Centering and its Impact on Inclusion

Austin Heller, Team Lead of Kennesaw State University’s Civic Engagement Team, joins Dr. Vanessa Weaver to speak about inclusion initiatives centered around whiteness and how it impacts efforts to boost diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
In this Episode

· Dr. Weaver and Austin Heller discuss the definition of white centering and how it manifests itself in the workplace, from tone policing to hairstyles and attire and other actions that are deemed “abnormal” to white people

· How centering DE&I policies around white feelings and fragility only harms people of color and fails to address their experiences with racism in and outside of the workplace, thus creating more feelings of alienation for people of color

· Generation Z’s major political and social involvement and how it could change the way that companies approach the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace

· How different policies such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and Disney’s lackluster response uphold norms of white normativity and heteronormativity, thus putting them into conflict with companies’ DE&I goals and how Gen Z is actively calling these companies out

· What Gen Z is doing to influence policies and practices to improve the workplace and their quality of life

Resources

· Austin Heller

· Guest’s Website

· Hybrid work: Making it fit with you diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy

· Addressing the unprecedented behavioral-health challenges facing Generation Z

· Gen Z: How young people are changing activism

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DEI Initiatives vs. Anti-Racism Work: Which Is Better?

Dana Brownlee, author of The Unwritten Rules of Managing and senior contributor for Forbes Careers, joins Dr. Vanessa Weaver to speak about the differences between diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the workplace and anti-racism work.

In this Episode

· A brief introduction to Dana Brownlee and her work in the space of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, anti-racism work and the differences between the two spheres of work

· A breakdown of DEI initiatives and why they can sometimes fail professionals of color, particularly Black professionals through a lack of analysis on systemic racism and its effects on the workplace, in addition to centering DEI initiatives around white workers

· The “three ingredients” to creating productive conversations surrounding racial equality and justice inside and outside of the workplace, including racial literacy, humility, and racial stamina, as well as the challenges of teaching racial literacy in a way that is accurate to American history

· The hostility and negative pushback that Dana has received in her work on DEI initiatives and anti-racism efforts and how she has managed to overcome them, on top of positive feedback that she has received for her work

· What corporations, government agencies, and non-profits can do to continue the dialogue of racism in their spaces and how to better promote anti-racism within the workplace

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· Dana Brownlee

· Professionalism Matters

· The Unwritten Rules of Managing

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