ABSTRACT
Behavior analysis is a powerful science of behavior change. It has the potential to remediate suffering, shift systemic and structural contingencies that create barriers to justice, equity, and inclusion, and prevent the worsening of a wide variety of conditions. Ironically, part of the resistance to diversity efforts in the field could also be attributed to a foundational tenet to our field: that the science of behavior analysis seeks to understand principles of behavior that underlie all people, organisms, and settings. Fast forward to the present time, in the wake of: the #metoo movement; challenges to reproductive rights; continued racial injustice against Black, Indigenous, People of Color individuals; politics intended to harm those in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning, intersexed, asexual, and two-spirit communities; and a pandemic.
