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How academic partners navigate tokenism and professional identity

My research partner and I are both academics of color studying similar topics, and we keep running into situations where institutions treat us as interchangeable or expect us to represent all perspectives on our subject. We've never talked directly about how this affects our individual careers and our collaboration, but it's creating weird tension between us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people are experiencing systemic dynamics that are affecting their personal relationship in ways they haven't named.

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