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When you're the only voice for racial justice in your organizing group

I'm the only person of color in this environmental group and every time I bring up how these issues affect my community differently everyone gets uncomfortable and changes the subject.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Being the sole representative of marginalized perspectives in activist spaces creates exhausting emotional labor.

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