Post 4/4
With clearer eyes, I now think some confusion came from his health issues. He was a kind, creative human who tried his best.
He helped me survive my darkest time. I’ll always be grateful. I hope he’s at peace. ❤️
Post 1/4
My relationship with my therapist Nick wasn’t simple, but it was one of the most meaningful connections I’ve ever had.
After losing my dad, then my husband at his funeral, and my family stepping away, I felt completely alone. At times, Nick was my only support. ❤️
Post 3/4
Nick had his own struggles and sometimes seemed exhausted, but he always showed up. Then one day he missed our session. I later reached his mother and learned he had passed.
⚖️ The Sum of Indignities: Rethinking Hostile Work Environment Through Knox ⚖️
Courts often miss the reality of workplace discrimination. Not because the law is unclear — but because they fail to recognize the cumulative harm that defines hostile work environments.
In Knox v. CRC Management Co., a Black woman endured near-daily racial harassment — being called “too hood and ghetto,” mocked for “talking Jamaican,” compared to “Aunt Jemima.” The district court dismissed it as not “severe or pervasive.” The Second Circuit reinstated her case.
Why? Because harassment is rarely spectacular. It is habitual. Structural. Cumulative.
Too many judges and investigators interpret harm through unfamiliar lenses — privileging affidavits from employers while dismissing sworn declarations from workers as “self-serving.” This isn’t neutrality. It’s institutional bias.
The Supreme Court’s Muldrow v. City of St. Louis makes clear: discrimination need not end in termination or demotion to be actionable. If it erodes dignity, silences voices, and shapes conditions of employment, it matters.
👉 Hostile work environments are not marked by a single slur.
👉 They are built by the sum of indignities — microaggressions, silences, exclusions, and denials that corrode dignity every day.
It’s time our courts and investigators stop interpreting from above and start listening from below. Justice requires recognition. And recognition begins with belief.
Read the full essay here ➡️ The Sum of Indignities: Rethinking Hostile Work Environment Through Knox https://t.co/vVOl7fCiSo
#CivilRights #EmploymentLaw #HostileWorkEnvironment #Knox #Muldrow #WorkplaceJustice #EEO #StructuralBias
@BarrettFarahany I wanted them to honor my ADA accommodation request. I asked for HR contact information for guidance, instead, I got ambushed, gaslit, words twisted in order to destroy a friendship, My file is papered, promotion denied, and I should get my walking papers on Monday. Yea me!
@fezzioli Oh, this makes my heart hurt. You know that’s how you and I met was in a spaces where I was talking about the shitty way that people treated him. Do you remember that?
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Discernment. I can feel the BS. I can detect a fraud immediately. I know when something smells. I may not have the pieces yet, but I know I better start looking for them. I’m like a dog with a bone. I’m not gonna let go until I figure out what you’re up to.
@LillyTCKangaroo
I just looked down and both of my ankles and feet are swollen. I don’t know why the skin hasn’t split open. So now I’m thinking about ankles, and I thought I would just remind you that Meredith is a royal ankle! Oh, and so is Jennifer Altman.
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@DrDoyleSays or do I throw it away because it’s going to make me look so pathetic that my anxiety and depression is so bad, that I have to write down how to speak to me. Who does that? They retaliated by taking my promotion away from me. So in the end, I still lost.
@DrDoyleSays Currently, they accuse with no proof. Then I’m triggered,and it becomes an episode of trying to clear my name, and them mad because I refuse to take responsibility. I’m asking them to ask before they accuse. Do I write cliff notes or the gone with the wind?