“We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: Navigating Three Black Women Tropes in Leadership
By
Kerrien Suarez and Whitney Parnell
May 2, 2024
Many organizational executives who identify as Black and women are not sure how much longer they will be able to continue in their leadership roles. The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual toll of doing the emotional labor expected of us—the labor that racism socializes others to expect us to do in the workplace and beyond—has been documented as shortening our lives.