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Being mistaken as the assistant.
Never being 100% sure how much racism has impacted your career trajectory and having an idea about that all the signs and research would suggest that it definitely has but not being quite sure just how much.
For those of us who have unusual names, people constantly mispronouncing or not even trying to get our names right.
This is the most frustrating one for me. 🤦🏾♂️
Seeing everyone else in the group clicking or socializing outside the office and wondering is it bias or do they just not like your personality
Bias could be as simple as "oh I feel slightly less comfortable around this person who doesn't look like me because I don't know if we have common experiences and I'm slightly more comfortable around this person who does look like me because I assume we have common experiences"
These people don't even know me well enough not to like me because of my personality, but I see them acting like themselves around eachother and I know I don't like that 🤪
The micro gaslighting when white people (especially white women) think they know of or try to relate to your experience. I had a "career coach" at my prior firm try and give me "advice" without asking me anything about myself. It amounted to - "be like everyone else." I felt silenced and just hurt that every instance of me feeling and being other for my whole life was overlooked, solved by a simple phrase. She had no idea the meaning behind her statement. And even worse, she never tried to understand.
Wow. So sorry to hear this.
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For me, as a brown woman—Being included in proposals bc all the other attorneys are white and then not actually working on the case when we get the matter. Being mistaken as the paralegal or secretary when I go court hearings or depositions. Mispronouncing my name after being correct multiple times (or asking if they can give me a white sounding nickname, no the fuck u can’t sir). Constantly being “complimented” on how “exotic” I look (yes, attorneys still do this)
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Damn yo, people are so ignorant
AAPI issues being overlooked because we are the "model minority." Also pitting diverse communities against each other like this is the oppression Olympics.
That's a leap
I think lumping all POC together is not the best route to take.
that’s fair and a good perspective
Being told we have to work twice as hard for half as much.
Also it being assumed that you got to where you because of “affirmative action” and not because of merit.
And second guessing yourself as to why you got where you are.
As a black woman who is a managing attorney, I find it traumatic to constantly be undermined by White subordinates who then try to suggest that “water ain’t wet” when confronted. Another trauma, watching a White underperforming and badly behaved peer get rescued and promoted while knowing that if I did 1% of what they did, I’d be fired.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
As a Black woman attorney, dealing with racial and gender stereotypes have been traumatizing. I'm overtalked if I don't speak up (ie. woman are ignored). When I speak up or with more assertiveness, then I need to calm down (ie. Black people are aggressive / Black women are angry).
Always having to be called on as the black one and sharing the bs diversity and inclusion crap everyone’s doing now. I obviously know that I’m black, diversity and inclusion should be for white people, not us.
Not having supervisors or coworkers that look like you.
I’ve had two Asian female coworkers, and we got along so well. It could be a few different reasons, but the two that stick out the most are that we either had shared life experiences that helped us relate to each other, or that they were comfortable interacting with another Asian.
It made me realize how some of my white coworkers are just straight up uncomfortable with me, and how much of an easier work experience white people have with other white coworkers/supervisors due to their shared life (white cultural) experiences too. And how that ease and familiarity leads to better assignments, more favor when promotions come up, etc… it touches all facets of a career
People assuming I want to talk sports or my children play sports because we are black - even though my children are under the age of 6 and their favorite activities are reading and writing...
I don't know if it's just my personality, but I feel like people are much quicker to push back on or dismiss any suggestions I make.
Always having to be the diversity representative.
Every time I’ve stood up for myself at work, Im the one who gets in trouble (even though I’m pointing out how I’m getting treated unfairly, somehow the blame gets shifted onto me).
"Trauma" is a bit hyperbolic. This is not to say that micro and macro aggressions don't happen in this white centric career of ours but not everything rises to the level of "trauma".
Some judges would have implicit or unintentional racial bias against us. Another is that a woman like myself would have a hard time getting the chance to become an associate in a large law firm.