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What Comes After DEI? Better DEI
The recent New Yorker article by Emma Green, “What Comes After D.E.I.?” , chronicles what some are calling the “pluralism pivot” — a...

Carlos
6 days ago5 min read


Ten Toes Down, No Flinchin’
Generated vis ChatGPT4.5 Organizations I support in my capacity as a DEI consultant, like organizations across the country, are...

Carlos
Apr 153 min read


DEI: Expansive or Restrictive? A Salon Conversation
I was encouraged by the unique perspectives and the common ground in evidence during this generative discussion about DEI in this...

Carlos
Apr 121 min read


For Journalists - What Is DEI? An Explainer to Contextualize Your Reporting
Photo credit: alyssasieb/nappy.co I was honored to be able to contribute to this corrective guide on how reporters should and should not...

Carlos
Mar 277 min read


One Boycott to Humble Them All
So, where you at, SuperCitizen? Where you at ACLU? Where you at Southern Poverty Law Center? Where you at NAACP? Where you at George...

Carlos
Mar 242 min read


Cowardice in the Face of State-Sponsored Thuggery
Image generated using ChatGPT4.5 The etymology of the word thug traces back to an organized group of murderers and robbers in...

Carlos
Mar 223 min read


It’s Nothing Less Than Jim Crow Politicide*
*Politicide: the systematic erasure of certain groups from civic, political, and historical recognition Part One - Do You See What’s...

Carlos
Mar 154 min read


I Know! Let's Call it PB&J!
Image generated using ChatGPT4.5 "Household-name companies, like Walmart and Meta, have scaled back diversity, equity and inclusion goals...

Carlos
Mar 143 min read


Response: Keep Teaching with DEI Integrity
"Educational institutions should continue to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility among their student bodies. The...

Carlos
Feb 281 min read


Because Critical Inquiry is the Bane of Dogma
“...there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive...

Carlos
Feb 233 min read


DOGE is a DEI Department
If a professional setting policies to support workplace diversity is engaged in DEI, then so too is a policymaker setting rules that...

Carlos
Feb 212 min read


“Common Sense” as Code for Us, Not Them
by Frits Ahlefeldt Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire “This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological...

Carlos
Feb 203 min read


Two Sample Refusal Letters
My daughter, who teaches in Cambridge, let me know that her kids were scheduled to visit the John F. Kennedy Museum today. When they got...

Carlos
Feb 185 min read


Tolerating Tolerance as the Necessary & Sufficient Baseline Inclusivity Expectation
"The worst thing we can do with words is to surrender to them." — George Orwell Part One: What is the Essence of Inclusivity? Finding the...

Carlos
Feb 149 min read


Parable: Defiance, Not Compliance – Deference to Nonsense Makes No Sense
Image generated via ChatGPT40 Dear NYT Editor, A parable for your readers in response to "Alarmed, Employers Ask: What Is ‘Illegal...

Carlos
Feb 112 min read


Decoupling (as best we can) Psychology from Physiology to Maximize Fairness & Inclusion
Images generated via ChatGPT4o The current discourse on trans identity and sports could benefit immensely from rethinking the fundamental...

Carlos
Feb 105 min read


Challenging Harmful Orders
Just thought I'd share this evidence of institutions mobilizing to confront and block the baseless and dangerous orders regarding...

Carlos
Feb 93 min read


Damn, You Gonna Go Out Like That? Or Why We Cannot and Therefore We Will Not Comply with Lethal Nonsense
To Leaders of Communities Committed to Justice and Inclusion, I came of age as a black-racialized male immigrant in Dorchester, a...

Carlos
Feb 74 min read
Teachers Gotta Teach & DEI is Part and Parcel of Teaching
Here are the intended take-aways from this article: (1) We can’t do away with DEI, (2) We can and should do DEI better, (3) Targeting...

Carlos
Feb 65 min read


DEI is a continuum from DEIFA to DEIFU
By the power vested in me by no one, I hereby present the official understanding of DEI. The epigraph to my new book on DEI practice...

Carlos
Feb 33 min read
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