by The UIT Team | Oct 10, 2023 | Allyship, DEI Concepts, Podcast Episode
Show Notes When a marginalized person says that a situation is about race, gender, ableism, etc. it’s your job as an ally to belive them! In this episode Allie and Michelle disucss this concept and the degree to which they agree with it. Episode Transcript Allie...
by The UIT Team | Apr 21, 2023 | DEI Concepts, Marketing and Language, Podcast Episode
Show Notes In this episode Allie and Michelle discuss the social linguistic phenomenon of code switching, as well as the variety of not-quite-code-switching-but-basically-code-switching that underrepresented people do to fit in, feel respected, and feel safe. Episode...
by The UIT Team | Mar 10, 2023 | DEI Concepts, Podcast Episode
Show Notes In this episode, Allie and Michelle discuss why you shouldn’t claim that people are lucky to have all teh things they work so hard to achieve! Episode Transcript Speaker 1:Welcome to the Underrepresented in Tech podcast, hosted by Michelle Frechette...
by The UIT Team | Jan 13, 2023 | Allyship, DEI Concepts, Podcast Episode
Show Notes In this episode, Allie and Michelle identify how allyship is just as much about unlearning certain thoughts, behaviors, and mindsets as it is about learning new ones. Episode Transcript Episode Transcript: Announcer:Welcome to the Underrepresented in Tech...
by The UIT Team | Nov 3, 2022 | DEI Concepts, Podcast Episode
Chances are, you’re using “woke” incorrectly. Whether you mean it as a compliment or as an insult, it’s now a word so twisted from it’s original meaning… Allie and Michelle recommend dropping it altogether. Episode Transcript Allie...
by The UIT Team | Sep 29, 2022 | DEI Concepts, Podcast Episode
In this episode, Michelle and Allie have a sobering discussion about the simple fact that reverse racism is not a real thing, and how believing it is can be the starting place to a lot of other harmful thoughts, words, and actions. Episode Transcript Michelle:Hi...
