Systemic Bias and Racism Speaker Series: Inclusive Environments and Invisible Minorities | Virtual

Our work environments are made up of smart, well-intentioned people who want to be inclusive of everyone. However, our workplace culture often defaults to norms from a long history of equating whiteness with professionalism, masculinity with competence, and cisgender/straight experiences with universal life realities. Together, we will reactivate our awareness and efforts toward dismantling workplace cultures that fuel exclusion. We will explore common scenarios of 2SLGBTQ+ folks and racialized people who find themselves at the margins of progressive organizations that have already adopted equity frameworks. This talk will also consider strategic ways to shift our workplace culture with new intentions and strategic actions.

Rahim Thawer is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, facilitator and public speaker, sessional lecturer and writer. He began working in the HIV/AIDS sector in 2008 and has dedicated over a decade to LGBTQ Muslim community organizations. Rahim is a Fellow at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto for his contributions to the field of sexuality. He was a co-editor and contributor to an anthology entitled Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Toronto Book Awards.

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