Who holds power when things are named? In this episode, Kelly talks about how the language of injustice shapes how we craft and bring together words. As a mother of 5 children, all who are of African and Dutch descent, Kelly shares how having a liberatory mindset helps her navigate this unfamiliar terrain as a mother with skin colour privilege. She also explains why we need to invent a language of justice so we shift our culture towards justice.

Kelly Diels as a feminist educator, writer and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture makers. She’s here to raise awareness about how the business as usual formulas we learn everywhere, actually reproduce oppression, she develops and teaches alternate feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently. And better. You can find out more about Kelly by going to www.KellyDiels.com.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How the absence of knowing her matrilineal line prompted Kelly to create the work she does today
• What guides Kelly so she creates a safe space at home for her mixed race children without causing racial harm
• What white fragility really is and the questions white people can use to interrogate their relationship to a system that demeans, oppresses, and abuses
• How intersectional identities create nuance, complexity, and layers (and how Kelly navigates her dominant and marginalized identities)
• The one academic whose framework guides Kelly in all that she does and how others, no matter their leadership potential, can use this method in their communities, corporations, and homes
• The injustice that Kelly named and how doing so has helped she and her clients understand the power of naming things
• How to protect the words that you coin without hiring a lawyer and going through an expensive trademark process
• Why fonts are a feminist issue and how they tie into a liberatory framework of naming things

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