Being a True Ally Doesn’t End with a Social Media Hashtag

Rhadia Hursey is a private chef working in New York City.

Sometimes you have to burn something down in order to rebuild it properly. Last Tuesday, I guess you can say I did just that. I used the word exhausted six times in my letter when I resigned my position as president of the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance. For years, there has been an undercurrent of veiled racism, microaggressions, and gaslighting in that...