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When solidarity becomes exhausting performance

I smile and nod when my white friends make comments about other Black people because I'm tired of being the spokesperson.

Juana
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The burden of representation can make us complicit in our own marginalization.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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