Please don’t diminish people’s experiences with these types of statements. — These were the words that jumped off the page while I was going through the data gathered from a recent whole systems change method I co-facilitated a few weeks ago. “I have never experienced racism in Quebec.” And if you’re wondering, no, this was not coming from a white male…

Don’t make us “prove ourselves” more than we need to. — I used to be an excellent interviewee. All I had to do was get my CV noticed, preferably by dropping it off myself (when that was still the thing to do) and I can sense that I was already in the door. I took it for granted for years. I…