Tomi Adeyemi, Amanda Seales & The Cost of Telling the Truth
About this episode
Mandi explores the fallout around Tomi Adeyemi and Amanda Seales, discussing the challenges Black women face when speaking the truth at work.
In this solo episode, Mandi digs into the messy, public fallout around Children of Blood and Bone author Tomi Adeyemi and Insecure alum Amanda Seales — two Black women who chose to speak openly about mistreatment tied to projects that should have been “safe” for them. Using their stories as a lens, Mandi explores how misogynoir shows up when Black women tell the truth at work, why our first reaction is often tone policing instead of empathy, and what a practical (if imperfect) framework for speaking up can look like when protection is not guaranteed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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