“Surviving Institutions That Weren’t Created For You”
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1 min readDec 12, 2017
“No one tells you how to survive in institutions that weren’t created for you. No one tells you how to navigate through buildings that are named after men that would have spat in your face when they were administrators. Your choices are limited: assimilate, drop out or fight like hell. Sharpen your nails on chalkboards that try to hide behind words like diversity, have white professors spilling out your history, acting like they know it better than you — a child of the Diaspora, the product of what they’re teaching. You’re their Ph.D.
The realization leaves you stinging for days.”
