Podcast Rec. - July 7, 2020

Podcast Rec: Speaking of Racism “Living into the Work” with Myisha T from Check Your Privilege (Released April 29, 2020)

“When you experience shame from doing this work, you typically do two things. You freeze or you ghost. You move into inaction, and when that happens, you actually ghost the entire process because it’s created a feeling of aversion in your nervous system...There’s a tendency to retract, to ghost, to disappear. And oftentimes, once you disappear from the work, then you have become complicit in white supremacy. Because you’re not leaning into the discomfort, you’re actually avoiding what you probably need to acknowledge as harm.” Myisha

“I’m often even telling white women that I work with in tech the way that you’re treating women of color in these tech spaces are the way that white men treat you. It’s the cycle of abuse. It’s just passed down, and we’re not recognizing it as a culture.” Myisha

“Assimilation is also a tool of white supremacy.” Myisha

This episode challenged me in numerous ways as a white woman. I am now asking myself each morning, “How will I live into the work today?” Much of my time living into the work these days is spent talking with my three young children about race, taking every opportunity to model humility, empathy, and action in front of them while involving them when I can.

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