My team lead and I are both women of color but from different backgrounds and we've noticed we handle microaggressions from our white colleagues completely differently. She confronts things directly and I tend to document and work around them, and lately it feels like we're inadvertently undermining each other's approaches.
More people experience this than they realize.
Survival strategies that work individually can create unintended conflicts when people with shared identities but different approaches work together.
“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”
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