Fiction can convey ideas that reports cannot — but it’s not a replacement for fact and history. Meanwhile, data is one form of storytelling but also not necessary to validate lived experiences and truths. Reading widely across genres is key.
Read MoreArt takes an incredible amount of time, resources, and emotional and logistical support. To reduce it to talent and discuss success in terms of inevitability means to rob anyone not born into wealth and connections with an opportunity to even start.
Read MoreIt’s time diverse lived realities are treated as fact and alternatives designed to not only accommodate individuals but change as a system altogether.
Read MoreA young woman’s deviation from accepted norms is not seen as a leader forging her own path; it’s someone who doesn’t know what they want.
Read MoreSo many of you are eager to celebrate the good. You’re eager to enjoy our food, admire our clothing, and watch our films (when they win Oscars). How many of you are willing to hold space for the ugliness of anger when it flares up at a dinner conversation?
Read MoreWe need to constantly be re-evaluating our capacity and engaging in the ways that are appropriate. This is going to require pushing our comfort levels and boundaries — and it’s not an equal responsibility either.
Read MoreIt is not enough to lump such diversity under one name and call it a day.
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