I Need a Break From Being a Woman of Color
It’s just exhausting
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5 min readJun 10, 2019
Of course, I don’t really want to give up who I am: a black, biracial, African American, and white woman. But I sometimes crave a break from having to trudge this descriptor with me into every thought and memory, every writing assignment, or vacation — every single new encounter with a stranger.
