Interrupting Business As Usual

Ep 74: The Problem with Leadership in Social Justice Spaces


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You don't have a leadership problem.

You have a how you think about leadership problem.

Every time harm happens in activist spaces, we ask:

Who allowed this person to lead?

But we don't ask:

Why were we organizing ourselves around them in the first place?

In this episode, Nikki breaks down how leadership models in social justice spaces concentrate power, recreate harm, and keep us stuck in the same cycles.

In This Episode
  • Why charismatic leaders are often a red flag, not a solution
  • How movements recreate hierarchy instead of dismantling it
  • The danger of outsourcing your power and critical thinking
  • Why visibility gets mistaken for integrity
  • What it actually means to practice shared power and accountability

Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Everything.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣

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Interrupting Business As UsualBy Nikki Blak