We don't work from home because work is what matters most. We work from home to free ourselves to focus on what actually does. - Anne Helen Petersen

When you conceptualize diversity as something you add onto an existing monoculture, chances are high those employees will always feel as if they were somehow on the outside of it. And when you treat DEI as a module to complete, you can blind yourself to the way your company fails to integrate its ethos into basic, day-to-day operations.

A recommitment to and cherishing of oneself isn’t self-care, or self-centeredness, at least not in the contemporary connotations of those words. Instead, it’s a declaration of value: not because you labor, not because you consume, not because you produce, but simply because you are.

Their bodies, words, and actions have become a locus for the type of inflammatory rhetoric usually reserved only for political figures.