Monday's Opening Thought: April 18, 2022

This week’s opening thought, for Global Majority folx, people of color, and people of culture: know your worth and hold to it, not just your financial worth but your worth as a human being.

Don’t let these white supremacist and colonizer-based systems and organizations we must grapple with to survive decide what they think your worth is because they will always offer you pennies instead of diamonds. Don’t accept anyone underpaying you or undervaluing what you bring to their company. You are much more than a diversity hire. Your lived experience and work experience are more valuable than they want to admit. They need you more than you need them or the added stress of their urgency to position you as the magic solution to their issues.

Yesterday’s price is not today’s price.

And today’s price might go up this afternoon if people keep trippin’.