RE: Let's talk intersectionality
Well done! And I love that you mentioned just because you’re privileged your life isn’t perfect but also the flip side. If you’ve been oppressed it is not a sentence to a life of misery.
I’m a cis hetero female, who if I’m being totally honest, hasn’t experienced much sexism. I work in male dominated industries and have had the periodic struggle to climb the ladder. But at the end of he day, if i look deep, it was pretty easy for me. I overcame a biased system where the cards were stacked against me, just from doing what comes naturally to me. I was just me.
For that reason i often struggle with where my voice should be heard, how loud, in what community, etc. It’s primarily a support role but with some experience to help women succeed in business. I’m very much still finding my place in how i help rid the world of all the ‘isms
It sounds like you're in a terrific position to help others. You call it a support role, which makes it sound secondary, but it can be a mentor role, which you sound eminently qualified to be.
And I can tell you from experience that giving someone an opportunity or a leg up early in their career can be incredibly rewarding later on, as you watch them prosper.
I like mentorship. That’s pretty much how I view my role at work. I so much mentor rather than manage. But it’s your basic lead vs manage stuff.