Thread by @usnehal

I am grateful I had mentors who did not do this, rather used words like “brilliant.”

Later in career, my having the confidence I did from early nurturing caused some people to feel I was “full of myself”...but was that cuz

...we expect women to apologize for taking up space?

Now add the experience of being a minority. For Black women there is either the “mammy” or the “angry Black woman” tropes. Where is the space to be authentically oneself and confidently so? #MedTwitter #PROWD #WomenInMedicine #WomenInSTEM

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“Asian” encompasses many things and while there is some overlap between cultures and stereotypes of us, there are also differences. From the @APAPsychiatric
#MedTwitter #PROWD #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #womeninbusiness

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🧵 within 🧵 of what kinds of fetishes are perpetrated - here by fellow women to a primarily male audience about Middle Eastern, Arab, and/or Muslim women - and how I encounter this in the workplace, especially the executive suite over and over instead when talking business

In comparison what if we made a public display of what it looks like to empower women? I did this deliberately on a Slack channel so others could also flip any narrative about this Asian woman. I reframed with deliberate in word choice. Others liked or engaged with the thread

There are women who do this like @Docbasia @QaaliHussein1 @DrvanTilburg+ #HeforShe men like @DrHowardLiu @nkagetsu @MarioATX_MD @ETSshow @jeffsimmons @Ackermanjay - words are powerful. Do you describe #BlackExcellence & female excellence to counter bias? Do you build up others?

Now that I am at an “elite” executive program, had been excited to get executive coaching. Except issues that WOC face seem beyond the scope of most b-school executive coaches. First there are no POC coaches. Instead the few WOC have turned to each other to muddle through.

This is true. Much of my leadership has been developed outside my employment in community & advocacy settings. That means my leadership style remains that of an advocate, which is often times opposite to how executives conduct themselves or communicate

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