Yesterday, I was a guest speaker on the topic of ‘Queering Leadership’ — week 4 of the seminar series, “Is she tough enough? Womanizing Leadership” at the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The instructor of the seminar reached out to me about a month ago after searching the…

One of the core things I do to minimize distractions is to plan my workday, first on the weekend, and then again the night before. This process allows me to focus clearly on what I want to accomplish in the week. I usually review my past week and plan the following on Saturday mornings. At the end of each working day, I review what I’ve accomplished and what I chose to avoid or didn’t have…

Privilege is like a safe deposit box filled with ideas about how to perceive the world around you. Privilege adds to your self-estimation of how certain you are about your status and safety in the world. When you resist change or react to something new out of self-protection and defensiveness…

It’s too easy to throw around the term, toxic masculinity. It’s more helpful to first identify misguided masculine energy, how and where it shows up, and when it goes too far, it becomes polarizing and a bundle of toxic, harmful behaviours. At its worst, misguided and toxic masculine energy polarizes the ‘other.’ The behaviours of misguided masculine energy exclude anyone classified…

Life is living in this moment, which is not to be confused with, living for the moment. ‘Is’ is the active and present tense of the verb, ‘to be.’ To be is now. Life happens now. Life is living in this moment, which is not to be confused with, living…

Flying the Pride flag during Pride month and then taking it down is a sure sign a business doesn’t value human dignity and queer lives — they only value capitalizing on Pride to increase profits. You have the power to demand inclusion, dignity, and respect 365 days a year because you can take your purchasing power elsewhere. But don’t sit in silence with your decision to support LGBTQ+ businesses or allies.