“Sure,” I respond. “I noticed that you wear your headphones a lot in the office,” she says. “It sometimes feels like you don’t want to be around us.” I take a deep breath. Because we work in cubicles, many of us wear headphones when we need to focus. Mine aren’t on more often than anyone else’s. The message: My body is being scrutinized in ways that others are not subjected to, and the worst is being assumed of me.
