toroyyo:

ctron164:

This tweet though !

Being a WOC is exhausting honestly

Today in my department I came across two of the handful of WOCs in my grad program (a Black first-year and a second-year from India) talking quietly and seriously in the hall. I didn’t want to interrupt because it wasn’t my business, but I overheard the first-year saying something about feeling like she needs to justify the way she thinks, i.e., that she takes time to mull things over rather than doing the instant rebuttal that’s so prized in academic philosophy. I’ve had the experience of worrying that any mistake I make, any (apparent) weakness I show, will be taken as evidence that women can’t do philosophy. How much worse, then, to have to worry that any apparent weakness is being taken as evidence that your entire gender OR your entire race, or both, can’t do philosophy.