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When diversity efforts tokenize individual experience

I'm the only Black person in our community mediation training and they keep asking me to share about my experiences with racism like I'm the expert on all Black people's pain.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The burden of representation transforms individual healing into educational labor for the comfort of the majority.

Worth thinking about

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