🌍 What if male allyship is actually reinforcing the problem?

Hola dear people —

A recent Utah State University study caught my attention: "Strategies that Male Allies Use to Advance Women in the Workplace." The researchers identified five common approaches—developmental relationships, HR processes, leadership development, recognition and treating women as equals.

Sounds progressive, right?

This framework perpetuates a colonial model where men "help" women instead of dismantling the systems that created inequality.

🔥 The real Issue: Proximity Without Power

As a Certified Intimacy Coordinator, I choreograph consent-based dynamics on film sets. The same principles apply to organizational life:

🟡 Proximity without power = surveillance

🟢 Support without redistribution = performance

🔴 Allyship without structural change = extraction

The Utah study's participants were 88.5% white and 78% Mormon—a demographic lens so narrow it misses the real questions:

• How does allyship differ for women of color, trans women, disabled women?

• When do we shift from individual behaviors to system-level transformation?

• What would leadership look like if built BY historically excluded voices?

🌍 Why this connects to Climate Survival

Climate breakdown disproportionately impacts marginalized genders—especially women in the Global South, Indigenous populations and trans & dissident communities (IPCC 2025, IISD).

According to The Lancet Planetary Health (2024), climate adaptation efforts led by women in the Global South—when power is equitably shared—yield measurably higher resilience outcomes than Western-centered models.

Counter-colonial inclusion isn't just ethically right. It's ecologically essential.

⚡ From Performance to Power Redistribution

✨ Sharing budgets, credit and decision-making authority

✨ Redefining success beyond profit and productivity

✨ Welcoming non-Western epistemologies—Afro-futurist, Indigenous, communal leadership frameworks

Cultural translation, not assimilation.

🧭 The questions that actually matter

Instead of asking: "How can men help women succeed?"

Ask this:

🔁 "How do we dismantle systems that force women to need male allies?"

🌱 "What leadership emerges when we center historically excluded voices?"

🌍 "How can inclusion support both planetary and social survival?"

Think about your last 'allyship' moment—were you redistributing power or performing support?

🎯 Ready to move beyond performance?

Turn diverse teams into strategic assets. Eliminate biases costing your organization €50k/year in turnover. Lead inclusive innovation that drives both compliance and competitive advantage.

🟣 DM me "POWER AUDIT" for frameworks that redistribute power, not just redistribute tasks.

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Key References: IPCC & Gender Disparity (IISD, 2025); Counter-Colonial Leadership & Climate Resilience (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024)