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When standing up for yourself costs you social belonging

I have been the cool girl who goes along with sexist jokes my whole life and I finally started calling them out, but now I feel like I lost all my friends.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Challenging normalized discrimination can result in isolation from communities that tolerate it.

Ideas that help explain it
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