Tag: Exclusion

It was the first football game of the season. They finish their halftime dance on the field and I see them all disperse. There go her 5 friends and she is left standing alone. They all take pictures and she isn’t invited, once again. It’s the same tired story. I have come to the co...

It was the first football game of the season. They finish their halftime dance on the field and I see them all disperse. There go her 5 friends and she is left standing alone. They all take pictures and she isn’t invited, once again. It’s the same tired story. I have come to the co...

Once again in history, exclusion arises in the vacuum of major changes in society and the advent of new technology. Nowadays, digital exclusion is a recurring theme in the headlines. Digitalisation has been going on for some time, but when the old ways of analogue participation in society are phased...

This disconnect is not new. Most people leaders want to believe their teams are inclusive. It is difficult to believe that employees are having a different experience than the one you hope to create. Leadership must accept the reality that people are having a very different experience than the one t...

In Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States, Julia Rose Kraut reveals how the United States has a long history of barring or expelling foreign noncitizens based on their political expressions and associations to suppress dissent throughout the t...

A recent article called “Is This the Most Expensive Pilates Class?” published by the New York Times (April 25, 2022) sent the Pilates community into an uproar. Depending on who you speak to, there were different interpretations. For me as a Black Pilates instructor with 15 year...

I’ve been wanting to write this article for a while now, but I have been struggling with the content of this particular topic. In part, because it requires me to confront racism in the museum, and my own complicity in shaping policies and hiring practices that have unintentionally created barr...