Thread by @funkybrownchick

Same here. ❤️ #solidarity

I've worked in #ReproductiveHealth / #ReproductiveJustice for more than a decade — including multiple women's rights organizations (both internationally & domestically focused).

Disclosure: I know several current & former employees — including folks in leadership — of many ethnicities, including white folks, at IWHC.

The article linked at the beginning of this thread is about IWHC, but they're hardly alone, nor is this thread specifically about them ( ... much like #MeToo isn't solely about one man named Harvey Weinstein).
theguardian.com/global-develop…

We need to change our culture. Throughout my career, I've worked in the private sector and public sector, for profit and nonprofit, here in the U.S. and abroad. Nonprofits can be just as bad, if not worse, than corporate. No sector is immune.

Internalized sexism is just as real and harmful as internalized racism.

Regardless of gender, so many of us get the same lessons about what the culture of leadership — and the traits of a leader — should look like. Some of those lessons are toxic & misogynist as hell.

Before anyone gets all #NotAllWorkplaces on me, obv there are tons of wonderful workplaces — including, of course, nonprofits. I've worked for & with them throughout most of my career. They're my former employers, current clients, etc. I ❤️ #NonProfits! funkybrownchick.com/about

We simply must build a world in which employees can go to work and do their jobs. Discrimination is a moral issue. It's also a bottom-line issue. After all, when/if you mess with people's abilities to get work done, you muck with ensuring work actually gets done.

That's it. I'm getting off my soapbox. Let's be better people. If your workplace is doing that — creating a better world — we should talk. Partner with my anti-racist, anti-sexist, Black-owned, woman-led #SmallBiz. funkybrownchick.com/about