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When code-switching makes you question who you really are

I code-switch so hard between my white colleagues and my Black family that I feel like I'm losing myself in the middle somewhere.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The exhaustion of maintaining multiple authentic selves reveals the cost of navigating spaces that demand different versions of who you are.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Masks and personas we wear?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.