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How marginalized people navigate humor in professional spaces

I am the only woman on my team and I feel like I have to be funny to be taken seriously but not too funny because then I am not serious enough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impossible balance required to be both palatable and credible in hostile environments reveals how systemic oppression shapes even our most spontaneous expressions.

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