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White Supremacy & Anti-Blackness: A Covert & Overt Beast.
White supremacy and anti-blackness is a beast that since the beginning of our history as a country has burrowed its way into every facet of American life. The beast is a violent one, a sometimes silent one, but it is ever-present and always ready to pounce on anyone or any concept that threatens its predatory way of life.
What It Means to Be Equity Champions During Crisis: Part II
In our initial post, Beloved Community explored ideas for how to develop a more inclusive and equitable virtual team culture. In this post, we focus on populations that are at risk, and examples of organizations that have keyed in on equitable practices while navigating the pandemic.
Use this post to better understand and consider those most vulnerable and explore ways you as an organizational leader can evolve or compromise to keep everyone safe and taken care of.
What It Means to Be Equity Champions During Crisis: Part I
Companies and organizations across the globe are feeling a sense of urgency with the sudden onset and continuance of COVID-19. Businesses both small and large have made difficult decisions while attempting to stay afloat. Some orgs have decided big cuts are best, at the expense of staff wellbeing, safety, and security, while others that have navigated this process with true equity and compassion in mind.
The Importance of Pronouns.
At Beloved Community we begin every facilitation with a group introduction. We ask each participant to share a bit about who they are; their history, what they’re hoping to learn, what brought them to our facilitation or talk, and to identify their gender pronouns.
What We've Learned Since 2018: Beloved Community's Equity Audit.
At Beloved Community, we are committed to implementing tangible, measurable systemic change at work, at home, and in schools. Our city, state, and nation are facing an unprecedented crisis with the onset of this global pandemic.
Centering Equity & Inclusion During Virtual Meetings & Working From Home.
This week, several of our organizations have had to switch to virtual meetings and working from home with a rapid increase in COVID-19 across the United States. As a team of consultants spread over 3 cities: New Orleans, Memphis & St. Louis, the Queen Team at Beloved Community has been succeeding at virtual team time since our founding!
Black History Month: What’s Intersectionality?
At Beloved Community, we frame our work in Kimberle Crenshaw’s (1989) theory of Intersectionality. We recommend Intersectionality as a framework for organizations to use to examine how multiple layers of oppression may be impacting their stakeholders and community members.
What Brought Me to the Beloved Community?
So, how did I, Dr. Nicole Caridad Ralston, get to Beloved Community? Let me start from the beginning, because in many ways I believe that who I am, my background and identities, have led me to join paths with Beloved Community in New Orleans.
Why Beloved Community: Lesley Brown Rawlings
Often when people think of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) they think of a set of mindsets and beliefs. Concepts that live exclusively in the heart and are segregated from the practices and systems that orient our lives. And while it’s easy to understand how these concepts can seem intangible, we must not let ourselves be deceived. Diversity, equity and inclusion is found in the policies, decisions and structures that manifest very tangible outcomes in our lives.
What We Learned: New Orleans Equity at Work Cohort 2019.
In February of 2019, Beloved Community launched our New Orleans Equity at Work Cohort. This 6 month series included 4 New Orleans non-profit organizations: Live Oak Wilderness Camp, Propeller, First Line Schools, and Louisiana Public Health Institute.