My co-founder and I are both women but she's white and I'm Latina, and when investors or clients dismiss our technical expertise, she doesn't seem to notice it the same way I do, and it's creating tension between us about how to respond and whether it's even happening.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared experiences of marginalization can mask the ways different identities create different lived realities within the same situation.
“Where Are You with Intersectionality in practice?”
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