Impact faced by workers of colour due to the Trump Administration banning DEI initiatives in the United States

Race Reflections AT WORK

In today's episode Simone reflects on how even though DEI initiatives end to fall short of meaningfully achieving their aims, operating as lip service for corporations, banning them only creates more harm.

They talk about how the US courts have been utilised by the Trump administration and the way this impacts workplaces and schools. And how eliminating diversity initiatives in healthcare has some serious implications for racial health equity.

They look at this article: Elimination of Federal Diversity Initiatives: Implications for Racial Health Equity by Latoya Hill, Samantha Artiga, Akash Pillai, and Alisha Rao https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/elimination-of-federal-diversity-initiatives-implications-for-racial-health-equity/

Then they consider how this impacts both staff and service users within healthcare. They consider how banning DEI work disproportionately impacts people of colour who tend to deliver these services, and also seriously sets back scholarship around these areas. Linking these issues to White Supremacy, capitalism and the legal enshrinement of false binary ideas around gender and sex. They finish by looking at some of the efforts to fightback against the Trump administration in these areas.

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