By Shalene Gupta — 2021
“If you’re trying to get home and the bus keeps passing you up because you’re in a wheelchair, you have to scream out.”
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Women with disabilities are often doubly penalized—for being women and for being disabled.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
The difference between microaggressions and overt discrimination or macroaggressions, is that people who commit microagressions might not even be aware of them.
Several queer Black Buddhist authors have showed me how spiritual practice can be a liberating force in the face of challenges as huge as racism, sexism and queerphobia.