Hope Rising
Oct 30, 2022

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They said go to school so we’d make a living wage…so we went to school. They said get a masters so you can earn a living wage…so we went to graduate school. They said look put together if we want to get taken seriously…so we never left for work without looking put together. They said just work harder…so we worked ourselves to death just to find out that a white coworker in the office across the hall does half as much as we do and gets paid more. After all the school, all the student loans, all the sleepless nights, all the somehow managing to juggle that on top of a life that is nothing but turbulent, we landed…here. I hope they eventually desegregate that data because you’re right. You’re absolutely right.

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Hope Rising
Hope Rising

Written by Hope Rising

Mixed race and multicultural | Cat mom | Editor for Out of the Woods | I write to heal myself and others | Support me at https://ko-fi.com/aashaanna

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