CAREERS: How marginalised professionals can cope with performative allyship.

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However, for some, this has provided a masquerading opportunity, leading to a growing concern around ‘performative allyship.’
Performative allyship refers to someone from a non-marginalised group professing support and solidarity with a marginalised group, but in a way that is not helpful. Peter Kalina from the Mayo Clinic made it apt when he said this performative allyship may in fact be harmful to “the cause”.
24 Oct 2022 11AM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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