Villains In Common

Villains In Common

Two people wearing LED skull masks, one with red lights and the other with blue lights, in a dark indoor setting.

Blends pop culture archetypes with lived experience to explore how employees are forced into a minefield of institutional tropes of harm reminiscent of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Whether for speaking truth or daring to live authentically and respectfully, this chapter calls attention to how power sanctions certain ‘characters’—and punishes others—in the moral architecture of predominantly white institutions.