Let’s Get Real About Why Women of Color Are So Tired

Playing by the rules in capitalist America comes at the cost of our mental, physical, and emotional health

Sayu Bhojwani
ZORA
Published in
6 min readFeb 11, 2020

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A photo of a frustrated black woman sitting at her desk at work.
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WWomen of color leaders are guarding a dirty little secret: Our work is eroding our mental, physical, and emotional health. We are slowly wrecking ourselves as we try to transform political

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Sayu Bhojwani
ZORA
Writer for

Restless citizen. Writer, keynote speaker, TED Alumna. Check out my book People Like Us — https://bit.ly/2Odt3SK