"Could you do your job for free?
Yeah, neither can we.
Of course we’re passionate, and we care, but a day of small favours is another day we don’t get paid for our labour.
But it’s not just about one-offs and individuals. Let’s just step up a level here. Do you think it’s in keeping with the values of diversity that you’re championing internally if you’re actually just farming the work of it out to an organisation run by people of colour without feeling any need to compensate them for their work?
I hope the answer is “oh shit”...
If an executive editor for one of global media’s best-known platforms is being asked to act as an unpaid consultant for “gatekeepers” — that is, influential industry professionals, who as wielders of such influence presumably have recourse to the funds needed (and much more besides) to adequately compensate the consultants, editors, fact-checkers, and similar contractors and employees they already hire — it suggests that writers and other expert voices of colour are being treated as free labour"
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