
Kamala, Ketanji, and Why Black Women Are Only Cautiously Optimistic
Representation matters. For those who say it does not, that often comes from a place of not having to seek out representation because they are deemed what is the “norm”. They see themselves in books, and lauded in the (literally) whitewashed retelling of history. They do not have to have months set aside to acknowledge their contributions, because their contributions are already identified as such on a daily basis---because again, society has decided that “their stories” are