Candi.

Me, most days to LinkedIn:
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On empathy, the unwavering importance of diversity, and shaping the language of love. 🗞️🤎✨

A pleasure and honour to be featured by Essence.

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And…

How are we going to organise and deal with the worsened isolation, microagressions and exclusion that will inevitably come from the shift away from any focus on DEI?

Because it was already, well, pretty hellish for BIPOC and many others.

But I fear now harm will just be emboldened more.

How are people dealing with extreme bouts of low confidence?

Is there an authentic-sounding bot yet that can give you evidence-based pep talks yet?

And I am once again reminding fellow leaders that if you need to be within centimetres of screen-peering distance to “know your employees are working” that, hunnies, is a ✨you✨ problem.

And for anyone who’s like “oh well, you don’t need diverse teams”.

We are living out just the first episodes in a dystopian series of exactly why you need diverse teams and it’s sadly going to get worse before it gets better.

People who get serious sensory overload.

People with long COVID.

People who can’t afford to live in the most expensive cities in the world.

The list goes on and on.

Inflexible working is a notion that’s only ever served the most privileged.

It has always been a barrier to equity.

I’m seeing a lot “return to office mandates are not feasible for parents”. Yes, this. And, there are many, many folks they’re not feasible for.

People with disabilities, when workplaces don’t have decent accessibility.

People who face continual microagressions that were worse IRL.

Caregivers.

Whew. The combination of my angel Mum’s birthday, grief, SAD in the gloomy, cold, lonely times, and the news feeling more “dystopian doom if-only-it-was-satire” by the day has my mental health feeling like a frayed cheesestring.

At this rate, this will be the year that I write a blog.

Let me know when we’re ready to talk about how “designers just need to understand the ✨bizniz✨ more” wasn’t the biggest problem, or solution, after all. Actually.

You had me at defining your roadmap using a tarot deck. 💞

Thankfully, I’m weird and witchy enough to know how significant Pluto in Aquarius is and how this pans out. ✌🏾💫

The wildest thing is that while some of us are pinching ourselves to check we’re not in a dystopian AI-generated video game, others are celebrating “a new era” of hate-mongering, greed and billion-acre egos.

I’ve never been so grateful for crystals to gaze into and tarot cards to get lost in.

I barely watch the news but most days for the last weeks, something has popped up that I’ve had to go back to and genuinely check it’s not AI or a dark satire.

These times are absolutely nuts.

You really have to pinch yourself and check things are real.

We need to talk about #PlutoInAquarius.

Because between its technology focus and its deep focus on social revolution and liberation, we all need to hold on to our hats (and throw away our digi headsets) because things are already getting WILD.

It’s like a dystopian futuristic satire already.

💜

I agree! Always here for chats, tears and all the honest answers.

Miss you. Big love!

Crystals: forever my reminder that, in an increasingly ridiculous world, there is natural beauty to be found in the small things.

This is aquamarine, and I just…💎

My SAD can’t function at all until there’s some kind of sun, it seems.

I am really starting to think I’m a bear?

Yes to rest! 🤎

Imagine if we were all just really honest.

“I ate a lot of cheese and (unrelated) Googled my symptoms more than once. I did not get clarity. My hair took on a new look of ‘Hagrid chic’. I cried throughout the whole of Mufasa in a tiny cinema full of children. I questioned 80% of my life choices.”

Shout out to my other small-talk-struggling weirdos.

Trying to find interesting responses to how your holidays and new year were 9 times a day is really something.

There must be other people that are just really (emotionally, politically, mentally, physically) tired.

How are people doing, you know, the things? All of them.

Another year of wishing I could relate to “new year, new, refreshed me” but, once again, I just have an extended taste for hibernation that’s reminded me it’s my true calling in life.

Can we pick up the things in Spring?

So, so sad!

Amazing, how do I join? 🫶🏾

Oh no, rest well friend! Plenty of zinc and get those crystals close. 🫶🏾

Isn’t it?! 🫶🏾

Always close to me. Thank you!

Thank you, boo boo. I can’t tell you how often I wish we were back together eating all the good food. 🫶🏾