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Through the Intersectionality Lens: Processing Vice President Harris’s Journey as a Woman, Black Woman, Immigrant, and a Mother
In this moment of reflection, I sit here holding four powerful identities close to my heart: woman, Black woman, immigrant, and mother. Where I had been zoned out of the election news, things changed when Vice President Harris came on the ballot as a Presidential candidate in the summer. Over the last few months, I have viewed Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign through these distinct yet intertwined lenses — each revealing a different shade of significance, touching a different part of who I am, and adding depth to what this moment means for our collective future.
Though the outcome isn’t what we hoped for, her journey as only the second woman, the first Black woman, and the first daughter of immigrants to come this far has already reshaped what’s possible.
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As a woman, I recognize the familiar contours of this moment — the experience of being exceptional yet still finding barriers intact, of watching another crack appear in the highest glass ceiling — significant, meaningful, yet not quite the breakthrough we yearned for. I am allowing myself to feel pride in how far we’ve come and the ache of “not yet.”
