Destination / the essay room
Identity, leadership, reliability, parenthood, and the things I cannot shake. The archive places lived experience beside professional practice.
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The legal argument was about warrants, but the voice in the background was about something bigger: who is allowed to open the door, and who is allowed to say no.
Choose seeing as care, not control, because when attention arrives as a raid, whole neighborhoods stop breathing.
One of the hardest parts of reliability is not technical at all. It is cultural.
Let’s play an interesting yet simple game: What exactly is so threatening about DE&I? Which part is troubling—is it the Diversity? The Equity? Or the Inclusion? The short answer is: None of them are inherently bad. The real threat lies in what they demand of existing power structures.
My first time wasn’t marked by the fireworks or magic that movies often show us. There were no sparks, and no heartfelt conversations about boundaries.
I tried to be strong. I told myself I had to be.
We're humans and it's only natural that we want to feel some form of belonging and purpose in what we do.