The Visibility Tax

About this episode

In this episode, Kianti discusses the costs of visibility for Black women and the challenges they face in choosing themselves.

Black women have been visible for a long time. In culture. In labor. In struggle. In the room. And yet visibility alone has never been enough to guarantee protection, resources, or rest. In this episode, Kianti gets into it. A recent headline sparked a bigger conversation about what it actually costs Black women to choose themselves, and whether that choice is even equally available to all of us. Spoiler: Kianti had feelings. A lot of them. We're talking about the difference between taking up...

People in this episode

Host: Kianti Brown Whitney

Topics covered

• visibility
• Black women
• self-advocacy
• cultural struggle
• resources
• protection

Keywords

• visibility tax
• Black women
• cultural struggle
• self-advocacy
• resources
• protection

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