out of the white nest

Writings about Whiteness and Racism

  • To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest

Category: White Crimes Black Defects

by Zee Bee

Imposter Syndrome and the White Race

every negative characteristic Whites accuse Blacks of inherently possessing is a cover for centuries of undeniable evidence of those very behaviors by Whites

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Why Work, Anyway?

But, of course, we aren’t working to earn a living, We’re working to be able to live. Work has to provide not just enough to pay for my necessary and quality of life expenses: I need supplemental income to contribute to my retirement, because social security ain’t gonna cut it; to provide for inevitable major expenses (like replacing my roof), and likely expenses (like treating the illnesses of an aging dog or buying a car); and, of course, in the United States, I need for my employer to provide health care, because in this country medical care is only a given for the rich, the well-employed, the old, and some of those with disabilities.

Work Drama!

This commitment to compassion & inclusion, and knowing my days at Nonprofit are numbered has put me on the CEO’s shit list. When I see Them dismiss staff’s feelings as irrelevant; or take over meetings They are attending as a guest to demand that every participant make a verbal comment about an insignificant topic; or accuse Committee members who do not behave, process, or communicate exactly like they do of incompetence, I have felt it is my responsibility to speak truth to organizational power.

Theme(s) of the Year(s)

We have a body to experience the world. And yet so many of us, me foremost in my mind, go through our lives not trusting the messages of our body. Or, rather, we believe the messages we shouldn’t, and ignore the messages we should. We don’t witness the intense work that goes into crafting our visual or aural experience, the interpretation that precedes our perception, creating the illusion of reality when what we are actually experiencing is the filter our brain has chosen for us.
Meanwhile, our body regularly sends us essential messages which we generally ignore, or only acknowledge in the form of emotional reaction, bypassing the message itself and skipping directly to the response.

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