Author: Tayler Simon

The Buzz: “Other Black Girls” and Racism in the Workplace

The Buzz: “Other Black Girls” and Racism in the Workplace

Posted by | Feb 10, 2022 | , | 0

The book The Other Black Girl by Zakiyah Harris has mixed reviews. *Warning: this essay will contain spoilers to the novel.* There are so many things to explore about this story: relationships between Black women, the publishing industry as a whole, workplace micro-aggressions, respectability politics, internalized racism, and so much more. The Other Black Girl is far from boring if you look at it from the right lens. A question that rose up for me while reading: Where do you draw the line when it comes to defining who/what is good for the Black community? 

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A Point of View: Calling in Black

A Point of View: Calling in Black

Posted by | Aug 19, 2021 | , | 0

I should have called in Black. It’s like calling in sick or taking a mental health day, but these are for the times when being Black in America feels too overwhelming. As Black people, we have inherited historical trauma. Slavery and Jim Crow are collective traumatic experiences. Police brutality and medical racism/experimentation are collective traumatic experiences. Red lining and mass incarceration are collective traumatic experiences. All of us may not have direct contact with every single one of these experiences, but we feel their effects, and we are threatened by them every single day. 

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