Raise your hand if you’re a woman of color and literally experienced every last one of these steps!

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Story of our lives☝🏼!
Is immediately deemed “difficult” for having logical reasoning and constructive opinions, that are conveyed assertively!

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YES

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Ugh. I’m really sorry. I don’t know how that struggle feels, but I am your ally. And I will keep trying to be better.

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Oh you mean what I’m going through right now! Where I have no sense of work balance any more because I’m supposed to stop drop and roll for everyone like the proper indentured servant I am. Don’t dare have any feelings about it, speak about it or try to situate it because then you’re referenced as “sour” because you’re exhausted, feeling used and beat up but you’re the problem!

Sorry master, I promise I’ll do better when I spend my evenings and weekends cleaning up your messes and just slapping a smile on my face while I feel like garbage! So glad I studied, stayed focused and built a career for this bullshit!

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Unfortunately, I knew I’d see a comment like that of copywriter 1

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I'm a male POC, but that chart step-by-step details what I went through at my last agency.

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Male, black, and in this business. It’s pretty much and one-to-one on this side of the gender fence as well.

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Every. Single. One

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🙋🏾‍♀️ Yes this is 100% what I’m going through.

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This rings so true for my experience; I really appreciate seeing that I'm not alone in this.

I recently got paired up with a black woman as my mentor and am learning so much from her in the process. I'm a white woman, but am also non-binary, differently abled, and first generation to enter college/business. All of these attributes help me see the world differently, and I have the confidence to speak up about the bullshit that gets played off as normal.

I'm hoping we can embrace intersectional diversity and learn from each other's experiences 🙌

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also -- recognize that there's a lot of nuance between different kinds of visible & invisible diversity. Wouldn't want anyone to mistake that every experience is the same -- just that there's so much we all can learn from each other.

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As someone who has lived the struggle, this is accurate, stressful, and demoralizing AF.

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I’m at the Woman of Color exits point...it’s not worth my sanity.

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Every time

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that shit hurted 😔

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This is my entire career

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Wow, that sucks. Anytime I see an opportunity to correct this and help, I will

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Damn. This is it.

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Yep this is real...it even happens at the places you least expect it which sucks even more.

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🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️

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Yep for the entirety of my 15 year career

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That’s scary...I can’t go through this again.

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😭😭😭😭😭

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So glad I’m not the only one who has seen this and feels it’s painfully accurate!

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