Dr. Annice E. Fisher

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Shifting Our Consciousness for Racial Equity

Healing Requires Honesty It’s time for a shift in the way we talk about racial bias. I want to challenge us to be more courageous and maximize the moment. We need to move beyond using unconscious bias as a default for classifying incidents of racial bias. I know this will ruffle some feathers…

Anti Racism

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Shifting Our Consciousness for Racial Equity:

Feb 1, 2021

Be true to what you said on paper: Anti-Blackness (Pt. 1)

We need to end Anti-Black racism, for real. Summer of 2020, in cities around the world, people marched for #BlackLivesMatter. For the first time in the history of the United States, we witnessed a multicultural tapestry of people marching to support the end of oppression against Black people. It appeared…

Anti Black Racism

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Be true to what you said on paper: Anti-Blackness (Pt. 1)

Jan 13, 2021

Two Spirits Stormed the U.S. Capital: We decide which to nurture

It’s been a week since the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capital and it still feels like the bad dream that we knew was coming. Failure to systemically act on the warnings from social justice prophets like Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Edward Said, Dolores Huerta…

Social Justice

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Two Spirits Stormed the U.S. Capital: We decide which to nurture

Nov 28, 2020

Collusion Smothers Progress

Ignoring Unjust Behaviors Keeps Oppression Alive We’ve all been there before, you’ve witnessed an unjust act like racism and you want to interject with that powerful statement to change the status quo yet you find yourself silent, nodding, or laughing in complicity with the very action that you wanted to…

Racism

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Sep 23, 2020

Power & Choice

We get to decide how we want to be in the world Our internal and external world is shaped by the cumulative impact of our daily choices. Whether we achieve a socially just world hinges upon every citizen’s daily decisions. It depends upon how we use our power in any…

Equality

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Sep 9, 2020

Mean what you say:

How to use DEI to disrupt, dismantle, and rebuild for social justice 2020 marks the year that we learn to live with each other as equals. It changes the argument to how do we co-create an oppression-free world where we treat each other with dignity. In his 1963 novel, The…

Equality

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Mean what you say, then you can disrupt, dismantle, & rebuild

Jul 29, 2020

Silent Torture: Removing the Veil off the Psychological Violence Against Women

As I reflect on my own life, stories from female friends and family, coaching anecdotes, and recent news, I’m finding an unfortunate but common trend: survivors of psychological violence. This type of violence is different from other types because it does not leave physical marks; however, it leaves scars that…

Womens Rights

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Silent Torture: Removing the Veil off the Psychological Violence Against Women

Jul 2, 2020

Supporting African-American Faculty, Staff, and Students in the Face of Racialized Political…

Supporting African-American Faculty, Staff, and Students in the Face of Racialized Political Microaggressions by Annice E. Fisher & Taris G. Mullins (Reprint from NASPA Knowledge Communities Issue, Fall 2013) Note: Although written 7 years ago, our analysis remains relevant to the current nature of Anti-Black racism. I hope this reprint motivates us to seriously use this moment to disrupt and end Anti-Black racism, once and for all.

Anti Black Racism

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Supporting African-American Faculty, Staff, and Students in the Face of Racialized Political…