Authentic Quotes

“I started losing my hair; I gained weight; I was depressed. I got on antidepressants.” Rafael resigned within the year. “Your body tells you when enough is enough,” said Rafael, “whether you listen to it is on you.”
― Jodi-Ann Burey, Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work

“Dr. Geronimus developed the concept of weathering based on findings that Black mothers who delivered during their prime childbearing years faced greater mortality and low-birthweight risks. No matter how much health, wealth, and education Black mothers attained, the stress of racism compounded and worsened birth outcomes.”
― Jodi-Ann Burey, Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work

“I needed to name what happens to us—the daily acts of racist occupational violence that take and take and take from our personhood and our pockets. We talked about the pet-to-threat phenomenon, gaslighting, racial battle fatigue, and stereotype threat.”
― Jodi-Ann Burey, Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work