Why does working for a cause so often come with the expectation that you should accept less than your work is worth? The nonprofit culture of martyrdom doesn’t just undervalue people’s work. It can perpetuate the very inequities these organizations claim to fight.
Read MoreWhen you’ve been gaslit at work, you may find yourself obsessively gathering evidence: old emails, timelines, performance reviews, Slack messages, anything that proves what really happened. Sometimes you’re not building a legal case. You’re trying to prove your own reality.
Read MoreNot all states protect you from workplace discrimination equally. Some states like California and New York have strong anti-discrimination laws and dedicated enforcement agencies. Others have virtually nothing. Here is a breakdown of the strongest, weakest, and most limited state-level workplace discrimination protections in the country.
Read MoreThe federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just voted to stop requiring employers to report the race and gender of their employees. When the agency created to enforce civil rights in the workplace dismantles its own tools for tracking workplace discrimination, the message to employers is clear: stop looking.
Read MoreWhen white women are called out for racism at work, many of us don't hear "that action was harmful." We hear "you are a bad person." White fragility takes over and accountability becomes impossible. The goal is not perfection. The goal is to respond with curiosity rather than defensiveness.
Read MoreA high-performing employee starts getting left off emails, losing direct reports, and assigned work below her level. By the time she realizes what's happening, it's been going on for a year. This article exposes the drip, drip, drip of workplace erasure, and why your body knows before your brain does.
Read MoreThe EEOC forced Planned Parenthood to pay $500,000 to white employees over DEI training—showing how civil rights law is being weaponized to protect white discomfort instead of addressing real workplace discrimination.
Read MoreA woman of color is placed on a PIP for her “tone”—a vague, subjective standard often used to justify termination. This article exposes how tone policing functions as a workplace control tactic and why these PIPs are designed to fail.
Read MoreRead this before agreeing to a BS "performance improvement plan", you may have better options.
Read MoreCivil Rights leader Jesse Jackson understood narrative control, who gets interpreted as a victim of circumstance and who gets interpreted as the cause of their own suffering. We white people need to sit with that.
Read MoreSharing some client victories to show how you may be leaving money on the table.
Read MoreWhen a woman challenges authority—particularly when she does so publicly, visibly, and without deference—she is framed as reckless, unstable, deviant, undeserving of protection. This article draws parallels between the murder of Renee Good and what women experience every day at work.
Read MoreWhen institutions face exposure, they often do not investigate first. They rewrite the story. We are watching this in real time in the Trump administration and the same playbook plays out every day inside corporate workplaces. This article explains how institutional lying works, and how employees can regain their footing when reality itself is under attack.
Read MoreAn unexpected meeting with your boss and HR is rarely “just a check-in.” If there’s no agenda, no warning, and sudden urgency, you may be walking into an HR ambush. Here’s how to spot it—and why you should never show up unprepared.
Read MoreFeeling invisible at work can be more painful than the gaslighting itself. You’re not imagining it and you’re not alone. Here’s why it hurts, and what healing can look like.
Read MoreA potential client used ChatGPT to write her own severance request. I understand why people turn to AI when they’re scared and desperate but using AI instead of a real employment lawyer can backfire. Here’s what AI can and can’t do when it comes to protecting your rights at work.
Read MoreFive years after my own workplace trauma, I’m still living with the aftermath of erasure: the quiet rewriting of history that follows a successful cover-up. This piece explores what it means to lose not just a job, but your story, and how survivors begin to reclaim what was taken from them.
Read MoreChronic stress at work doesn’t just hurt your mind, it also harms your body. From migraines to panic attacks, many employees get physically sick from toxic workplaces. Learn why it happens and what steps you can take to protect your health.
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