This Is How Your Workplace Is Killing You with Bianca Shaw

Break Concrete: Black Women At Work

Recognizing that traditional workspaces cause mental, physical, and financial harm for many Queer Transgender Black and Indigenous People of Color, Bianca Shaw, a Licensed Social Worker, co-founded TRIBE Co-Create, a cooperative business focusing on connecting Black and Brown small business owners, creatives, and doers in the Bronx, New York. Bianca has dedicated her career to amplifying the voices and power of marginalized communities and through TRIBE, she has created a healing space for the community that also promotes innovation. We chat about how traditional workspaces and values around productivity may cause harm and why Bianca believes people of color, particularly Black people, need their own spaces.

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc036.

Topics Covered:

• How workspaces can be detrimental to our health
• How capitalism and individualism influence our work structures and views around productivity and value
• The impact of workplace stress on our health
• The intersection of race, class, and gender in the workplace
• Why people of color need their own spaces
• The healing and transformative potential of Black spaces
• Whether spaces exclusively for and by people of color are segregationist
• The difference between a cooperative and co-working space
• Why Bianca created TRIBE Co-Create and the challenges she faced
• Business principles of TRIBE Co-Create
• How TRIBE competes with gentrification in the Bronx

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