I’ve been thinking about my life and all the labels that might describe me: divorced minister, welfare mom, single mom, adjunct, substitute teacher, part-time worker, disabled, retired, and aging. Of course, not all of the labels are bad: grandmother, mother, remarried, Professor, author, volunteer, webmaster, and President of my local League of Women Voters.
All of us are more than the labels society put on us—or that we put on ourselves. My life experience has taught me to look beyond the labels, but to pay attention to them. We take pride in some of those labels and they shape our identity.
DEI gives us tools to understand each other and to make sure that our learning and working environments are healthy ones. Destroying DEI practices and programs implies certain people are now less important and they are likely to feel invisible. That’s not good for business and it’s not good for education. And it’s certainly not something this liberal Christian supports.
What do you think?
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