Allyship is not proved by making room for Black people to speak, but by what happens after the truth has been heard. By Carla Rodney Back in 2022, I shared a short passage from the City of Toronto’s Black Mental Health page. It distinguished advocacy from allyship. Advocacy, it said, is standing up for people who cannot stand up for themselves; allyship is making room and space for people to stand up for themselves. At the time, something about that distinction stood out to m