Well-Being & Inclusion Articles and Posts
By Theresa M. Robinson
Protect Your Peace: 5 Strategies for Black Anti-Racism and DEI Educators
First and foremost, can we agree that this work can be absolutely blaxhausting?! At the same time, this work is so necessary. Black educators, in this space, and especially Black women, often get the brunt of the burden. No surprise there. We can sometimes experience...
Day 23 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: The Ole’ Hate & Switch
Along with covid19 updates, news headlines should always be END. WHITE. SUPREMACY. We already know WHAT and WHO white supremacy produces. Black folks have been living it for 400+ years. We and our true accomplices consistently expose it and work to end it. On the...
Day 17 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: What Every Black Mother Knows
On the heels of another armed white man who went on a hate shooting spree in Atlanta yesterday and on the heels of another white woman proclaiming “not all white women” after reading MY book—a book written BY a Black woman ABOUT the lived experiences of Black women...
Day 15 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: We Need a “Cure” for the “Common” Karen
Spoiler Alert: It’s not insulin. I can’t stop thinking about and reflecting on Sheryl Underwood and her nationally televised Sharon-Karen moment. I’m thinking about it also in the context of the high school sports announcer who attributed his racist rant to a diabetic...
Day 12 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: I Am Not Your Tina Turner
Back in the “old days” when we speakers and facilitators used to gather in person, I remember delivering a session for a group of fifty oil and gas leaders. Afterwards, I was greeted by one of the white male participants who made a point to stop and speak with me...
Day 11 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: Black Women Still “Singing the Blues” & They Still Harvesting “Strange Fruit”
In her legendary style, Billie Holiday had plenty to “sing” about. Originally a poem written by teacher and civil rights activist, Abel Meeropol, who later turned it into a song, "Strange Fruit" was performed by Billie Holiday for the first time in New York in 1939....
Day 10 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: Two Words—Harriet Tubman
This is your reminder that Harriet Tubman was a one-of-a-kind, sword-wielding, gun-toting badass extraordinaire. “Conductor” Nurse Military strategist Political activist Just to name a few. She would just as soon shoot your ass than allow you to impede progress or...
Day 9 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: A “Rose” by Any Other Name is Still a Karen
Remember the movie Get Out? Remember that foul character named Rose? Remember all the "secret ops Karening" she committed? What happens when you strip away the “explicit love relationship” but leave the modus operandi the same? You have a Karen that operates like...
Day 8 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: “I’m Every Woman”
In time for International Women’s Day, this song and its lyrics contain a message for this moment. The opening alone is EVERYTHANG and has the power to eclipse the “original intent” of the song. I’m every woman, it’s all in me Anything you want done, baby I’ll do it...
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Day 5 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: “Chivalry Revival” in ….Wait for it….Wait for it…Texas [insert “audible” eye-roll here]
What. The. Actual. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. Texas?!? Exhale. There. I had to get that out the way. Now, how to even begin to reasonably analyze and assess this newest dumbfuckery that a Texas teacher decided to roll out during Women’s History Month. The timing is such a...
Day 4 “Crashing” Women’s History Month: Self-Advocacy Truths (Part II)
Black Let’s continue our conversation from yesterday with an explicit contrast between what cis hetero male centered self-advocacy is and what Black woman centered self-advocacy is. “Traditional” Self-advocacy. The perpetuation of white dominance via speaking up and...
Day 3 of “Crashing” Women’s History Month: Self-Advocacy Truths (Part I)
Self-advocacy. The act of speaking up and speaking out on behalf of yourself in order to make known your wants and needs and to advance your interests and views. Sounds really good on paper. Works pretty well, too, when you’re a cis hetero white male. If you’re a...
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