Understand Code-switching as belonging strategy More Clearly

Code-switching — the performance of a different self for different audiences — is a sophisticated survival tool developed by people who have learned that showing up fully in certain spaces is not safe. It is not dishonesty; it is the exhausting intelligence required when the dominant culture extracts belonging at the price of self-suppression. The energy spent on code-switching is real, cumulative, and never entirely recovered.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.