My best friend and I are both the only people of color in our graduate program and we handle it completely differently — she code-switches and plays along with microaggressions while I call things out — and now there's this tension between us where we're judging each other's survival strategies instead of supporting each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people sharing marginalization are fracturing over conflicting approaches to belonging, each carrying the weight of representing their community differently.
“Where Are You with The minority experience of belonging in majority spaces?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.