yes, life is hard for everyone—but black women have their own unique battles, a Molotov cocktail of racism and sexism. We have to combat the stereotypes of being at once hyperemotional and stoic, we have a shorter life expectancy than white men and women, we’re paid less than men and white women, we’re three times more likely to be incarcerated* than white women, have a higher poverty rate than other women* and, perhaps, most important, getting our hair done takes as long as the run time of the BBC’s six-episode miniseries Pride and Prejudice. So how do I, or any black woman for that matter,
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