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When workplace participation becomes a double bind

I am the only Black person in my office and when I speak up in meetings people say I am being aggressive but when I stay quiet they say I am not engaged enough.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Racialized workers face impossible standards where any form of professional engagement can be pathologized.

Ideas that help explain it
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