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Scenario

When colleagues have different strategies for handling workplace bias

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.

What we've seen

Survival strategies that work individually can create unintended conflicts when people with shared identities but different approaches work together.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

Peri

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