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I’m Black and trans, but an HR conference reminded me there’s more to my identity
- Work travel means the author is dressed down in boyfriend Levi's and Nine Inch Nails sweatshirt but the HR conference attendees, particularly millennial and Gen X men, liked the shirt.
- There are aspects of diversity and identity (cultural heritage, religious background, etc.) that aren't so easy to capture and calculate, but they're just as unifying as race and gender identity.
- The author and her co-moderator talked not only race and gender identity at the conference session, but veteran status, age and neurodiversity.
- The author says it was refreshing to go into a space and feel like the “only” person like them, only to be embraced by people who looked different from her.
- Conference attendees with colorful hair often came forward to compliment the author, she ultimately crushed it as a moderator.
- The author found belonging in surprising places, and says the conference experience has shown that while the US may have backpedaled on its commitment to inclusion and belonging, authenticity at work may still be fashionable.
- The article concludes by saying in the author's session, she gave attendees something they weren’t expecting in the realm of inclusion and belonging.
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