My research partner and I are both women in STEM, but she's white and I'm Latina, and there are things that happen in conferences and meetings that we experience totally differently, and I don't know how to bridge that gap without making her defensive.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared marginalization creates false assumptions of identical experience, masking the ways intersecting identities create different realities even among allies.
“Where Are You with Identity in old age and approaching death?”
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