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When environmental groups tokenize your identity

I'm the only person of color in my environmental group and they keep asking me to speak for all marginalized communities, which feels tokenizing but I also want the platform.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're navigating the tension between gaining influence and being reduced to a representative rather than an individual.

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