As my friends and family know, I clown around a lot on my personal IG. Honestly, I do it because the rest of my life - my work, my studies, my very existence as Black woman - is so incredibly heavy at times. I don’t think many of the people in my life can even grasp what it 1/ feels like to walk around in this world in skin that is not white.

I love my life and the people in it. I truly do. But I don’t share with most the microaggressions I encounter on a fairly regular basis bc I feel exhausted by the burden of having to constantly teach about 2/