Unlocking the Power of Self Advocacy and Intersectionality for Empowered Workplaces #shorts

24 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this short, the speaker emphasizes the importance of self‑advocacy and mental‑health awareness within workplaces, especially for employees with disabilities. They highlight how intersectionality—such as being a Black deaf woman versus a white deaf man—creates distinct lived experiences that must be recognized. The speaker argues that leaders and people managers should intentionally create environments where employees feel safe, supported, and confident that their leaders have their backs, enabling them to bring their best selves to work.

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What about self-advocacy and empowering people to feel like they can talk about themselves? What about mental health? What about intersectionality between different types of disabilities and other situations of underrepresentation? I mean, it's one thing to be a white deaf man. It's a very different thing to be a Black woman who's also deaf. Right. I mean, the deafness is the same, but the other aspects of your of your being condition a different experience through that. So recognizing that intersectionality of different conditions also plays in that equation. I mean, it's really a roadmap to get you to a point where, as a leader, as a people manager, you are creating an environment where people will feel more comfortable, more safe, more confident that you have their backs. And so they can bring their best selves to work.