Every time you decide to publish a story, you will get a reaction from whoever reads it, and whether you like or not, you will be judged on the content.
Jen Carson had this privilege this week when her piece “It happened to me: there are no black people in my yoga classes and I’m suddenly feeling uncomfortable with it” was published on xojane.
In the story, she describes how her yoga experience literally changed when a “young, fairly heavy black woman” walked into her class. She spends the whole time imagining what the black woman was thinking and feeling.
Here are responses to her story, from readers who didn’t like her angle.
It Happened To Me: I Saw A White Girl On My Train And I’m Suddenly Uncomfortable With It
It Happened To Me: I Saw A White Person Buy Jerk Chicken and I Couldn’t Handle It
It happened to me: I read an essay about a white woman’s yoga class/black woman crisis and I cannot
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