Workplace leaders: White comfort comes at the safety of women of color, and it costs lives and livelihoods. Microaggressions, structural barriers, unpaid emotional labor — WOC in leadership disproportionately bear the burdens of white supremacist work cultures, even as they’re expected to take charge of reforms. But building better workplaces — less toxic, racist and misogynistic workplaces — is everyone’s responsibility and for everyone’s benefit. And letting it fall solely to women of color is causing real harm. The stakes are high, and it’s past time for change. What Your Comfort Costs Us offers essential reading and transparent advice for leaders who are ready to address structural inequity at work. Anti-supremacist philanthropic and nonprofit leader and author M. Gabriela Alcalde challenges us to rethink how we engage power — and take radical action toward reorienting it toward collective liberation.
What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture
M. Gabriela Alcalde MPH DrPH
$20.95
North Atlantic Books
On shelves and online
256 pages
