“It’s work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers questions about Blackness. It’s work to always be hypervisible because of your skim – easily identified as being present or absent – but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you. It’s work to do the emotional labor or pointing out problematic racist thinking, policies, actions, and statements while desperately trying to avoid bitterness and cynicism.”

“It’s work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers questions about Blackness. It’s work to always be hypervisible because of your skim – easily identified as being present or absent – but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you. It’s work to do the emotional labor or pointing out problematic racist thinking, policies, actions, and statements while desperately trying to avoid bitterness and cynicism.”

— Austin Channing Brown