We need to start an important conversation about all of the important conversations we need to have.Our backlog of important conversations seems to be growing at a much faster rate than these actual conversations are taking place at. The docket is becoming overloaded. The conversations are overdue. Some of them are long overdue.No one knows if or when these important conversations will ever take place, or who will participate, or whether fines will be assessed for overdue conversations (like for library books). What will ignite the conversations? Who will frame them, and then—if things start to drag—take it upon themselves to reframe them? And at what point does a conversation graduate from being merely “overdue” to “long overdue” (say, about paid family and medical leave, IUD insertions, mental health, and paternity leave)?The only thing we know for sure is that these conversations will be worth having. They might even be tough,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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