RESOURCES
Culture shifts when teams are prepared and well-resourced. Whether we create or compile them, we never gate-keep.
Please utilize what you need to get started.
Episode 24 - Tony Nguyen - Cross-Cultural Leadership
“A leader is the one who takes the initiative, is the first to do something - you are the bridge.”
Episode 23 - Chaya Milchtein - Business, Barriers, & Bodies
“I’m not going to strip
my identity, my uniqueness, my humanity from my work in order to make it palatable for other people."
How to Fight White Supremacy… with Agile?
So, you can’t really get rid of white supremacy just by adopting Agile methods and frameworks, but you can use Agile structures to support anti-bias, anti-racism, and pro-inclusion and equity work individually, communally, and systemically within your organization. They all need to be a part of the picture.
Episode 22 - Shana Abraham - RISE for Action
“Anyone can be a leader… but you have to step up and believe in yourself, first.”
Transgender Day of Visibility
Every year on March 31st, it’s the Transgender Day of Visibility! If you didn’t catch it last year, we did a video AMA with Linet interviewing me (Alexis) about some of my experiences as a trans woman. I also wrote three articles about it in the Calico Medium blog.
Episode 21 - Shannon Gadd - Ageism in the 21 Century
“The language we use has such a massive impact on everything.”
Oh Behave!
Can we really tackle bias and discrimination?
Join our two experts Dr. Linet Mera & Dr. Arianne E Eason as we dive into the pool of representation, erasure, discrimination, and what we can do about it.
Sign up for our active practice virtual session through Zoom or follow along through our livestream links.
Episode 20 - Tania Abdul - Breathe in Community
“Success in activism and movement building - it’s all relational… and it takes time.”
Episode 19 - Rohan Zhou-Lee - “Solidarity, Identity, and Change”
“If I don’t make explicitly clear who I am […], I am participating in my own erasure.”
Episode 18 - Liza Talusan - Making Trouble & Breaking Through Racism
“If you want to be a troublemaker, you need to speak up!”
Identity 101: Part 3 - Latina, Latinx, Latine, none of the above?
What does it mean when we have privilege and oppression happening simultaneously? How does that inform the ways that we are seen and unseen, unnoticed, how does that shape things?
Identity 101: Part 2 -Identity: Known, Unknown, Spoken, Silent
What does it mean when we have privilege and oppression happening simultaneously? How does that inform the ways that we are seen and unseen, unnoticed, how does that shape things?
Episode 17 - Enrico Manalo - Spoken and Unspoken
“If we want to move the ball forward, we have to trust each other.”
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Tomorrow, November 20, is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s a day when we remember the lives of trans folk who have been murdered for one simple thing - being trans. We also, on this day, recognize the ongoing violence against transgender people.
Episode 16 - Viv Tran - For Love of People
“Every job, every industry does have such a great social impact - and you can bring social impact to every role.”
