“I wheel my two-year-old daughter in a shopping cart through a supermarket…and a little white girl riding past in her mother’s cart calls out excitedly, “Oh look, Mommy, a baby maid!” And your mother shushes you, but she does not correct you.”

— Audre Lorde, 1981 (and yes, it’s still relevant).

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