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How I Found My Black Girl Joy Again

Tomika Anderson
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8 min readJul 10, 2019

Courtesy of Claire Soares

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A publication from Medium that centers the stories, poetry, essays and thoughts of women of color.

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Girl, g’on n stretch! I l.o.v.e.d that line :) Yes… it is very sad that so many of us can relate to your workplace struggles. My stretch is a little different. I’m still in my company… aggravating, agitating, and advocating much to the delicious…

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This is amazing!! I’m sorry to hear Claire had such a hard time rising in the ranks of a corporate world. She’s an inspiration to us all to create our own destiny and maybe even help to change this corporate-world cookie-cutter nonsense of no women…