Actionable allyship in law

Senior white male counsel called & noted that I was being bullied by opposing counsel, also wm. I knew & was ignoring. Black women lawyers are experts at redirection

He addressed w/ arbitrator & offered to file a law society complaint 1/ #lawtwitter

When I was consulted & proactively presented w/ solutions this ally used his expertise & privilege to take action so I wouldn't be solely burdened by what saint Toni Morrison taught us is the distraction of racism (read broader "isms") from our true work 2/ #ToniMorrison

What lingered though was the affirmation that came w/ the rare willingness to confront bullying in a legal proceeding

The interrupted normalization of racial gendered discrimination created space - I checked my cognitive dissonance from isms that I'm scarily accustomed to 3/

So, actionable allyship exists in law

We know performative allyship is deadly:  https://forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c90064

@SaraNAhmed complaint collectives: "When complaints are buried those who complain can end up feeling that they too have been buried. Sometimes we bury our own complaints" 4/4