“Quite often, we experience folks really believing that their workplace culture and habits and patterns are happening to them.”

The difference between what we want to do + what we're trying to change is where goals come alive so Alfonso + Trina give some goal setting frameworks. What future do we want to realize together? Is it a change in the mix? Is it a systemic outcome change? Is it a change for individuals around their feeling welcome or that they matter?

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"Culture change requires community organizing."

Trina + Alfonso respond to an anonymous listener question. A white, straight, man who helped move some internal equity work forward at an organization has changed organizations but still feels connected to the work + isn't sure if he should stay directly involved or not. Our hosts offers ways to talk about shared leadership when doing workplace equity work + share some key questions to ask oneself about the role you can + should play at work. 

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“When I make that shift in behavior + thinking, what’s next? Not, now I’m done.”

Trina + Alfonso share a zippy, lightening round episode focused on continuing to build + learn in equity work rather than wanting to reach a finish line.

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“Doing new stuff is uncomfortable… until it’s a pattern.”

One of the challenges of discomfort is that it can remind us of other kinds of pain, other kinds of trauma, other kinds of fear, and sometimes it can remind us of times we have felt unsafe. Alfonso + Trina share some ways of noticing when we are experiencing discomfort as a lack of safety and reminders of the choices + opportunities those experiences offer. 

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“Of course, any time smart women of color put out brilliant content, there is a critique from all angles.”

Our cohosts dig into an oft-occurring pattern where conversations centering race are met with a desire to focus solely on economic solutions. 

“We are not subscribing to a false binary where you should be hiring people you dislike.”

Alfonso + Trina take questions from listeners + share answers, suggestions, + stories. 

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"It almost feels like folks with do anything to not talk about race and gender."

Can you use your skill at studying the past or picturing the future and notice what’s happening in the present?

Trina + Alfonso do a zippy episode looking at the ways we get excited to dig into our own marginalized identities but often avoid paying attention to parts of us that aren't marginalized. 

“When we’re defending something there is likely something worth defending. But likely not at the scale or with the volume or with the intensity that we want to defend.”

Trina + Alfonso dive into the ways some folks equate antiracist with a loss of something they value. They talk about the ways the term 'antiracist' is being used and who is using it. And they discuss how part of anti-racism work is about decreasing our obsession with control of other people and of resources. 

Plus, Alfonso talks about the interaction of non-violence and anti-racism

Ibram Kendi article - The Mantra of White Supremacy

To start the 4th Season of BEHAVE, Trina + Alfonso each share three areas or issues they are giving some attention as we shift into the new year. 

Alfonso + Trina hop into a snappy episode focused on getting clear on goals when considering how worker's bodies are policed. They focus on an overemphasis on cleavage + dreadlocks in workplace policy.