Allyship Inversion Checklist

When “Woke” Is Just Rebranded Dominance

In a world where allyship often performs more than it transforms, this diagnostic checklist cuts through the performative noise and asks the real questions:

Is this leadership—or is it recapture?

The Allyship Inversion Checklist is a clear, direct tool for identifying when “allyship” becomes a status symbol instead of a daily practice, and when guilt, burnout, or vulnerability are being used to avoid responsibility rather than deepen it.

Use this tool to:

• Spot the difference between authentic reckoning and moral branding
• Interrupt covert re-centering dynamics in workshops, conversations, and leadership spaces
• Name the ways emotional labor, social justice language, and “inner work” are often used to maintain dominance, not dismantle it

Featuring red flag signals, integrity-based comparisons, and live-call interrupt phrases, this checklist is ideal for facilitators, DEI leads, truth-tellers, and anyone who's tired of watching accountability get sanitized into sympathy.

Perfect for:

• Calling in without collapsing the room
• Rebuilding standards of true solidarity
• Staying grounded in truth when white fragility gets repackaged as leadership

This is not about shaming. It’s about refusing to be manipulated by well-worded avoidance.