Things I Wish I'd Known Growing up as a Black Girl Nerd
Things I Wish I’d Known Growing up as a Black Girl Nerd
Growing up is always tough. But there’s something unique about the black girl nerd experience. There’s no prototype for the black girl nerd; no famous fictional adolescents whose path we could mirror and cling to. I think many of us had to go our own way, figuring everything out as we went along because it felt like we were the only ones. For me, it felt like isolation heaped atop a pile of…
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