Let's Talk: Owning Your Voice
Tue, Oct 20
|Online Event
During this talk, we'll be discussing the importance of owning your voice and being heard in a world that tries to mute you.
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Online Event
Guests
About the event
"I raise up my voice - not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." Malala Yousafzai
In 1975, Edwin Ardener and Shirley Ardener created the Muted Group Theory (MGT) that focuses on how marginalized groups are muted and excluded via the use of language. The term mutedness refers to a group's inability to express themselves due to this inequity. In corporate America, some of us call the mistreatment by the term microaggressions. The writer Audre Lorde refers to it as "oppressive silence."
How many times have we sat in a diversity training or seen a social post from our company about the importance of diversity and inclusion or BLM but reported into a boss who was the curator of the toxic and misogynistic culture?
Join my co-hosts, Mita Mallick, and Ali Levitan,…