“We have to be there for each other as students of color. We have to protect each other mentally and emotionally because no one else will”
“It’s deeper than not feeling represented in terms of not being equal – it’s also that my voice isn’t heard when thinking about university policy, infrastructure, or the obstacles I face because of my background. It’s just isolating,” says Eva Maria Lewis, a student at the University of Pennsylvania and CEO of gun violence awareness organization The I Project. “The capacity of this institution was not built to include me, so I become an afterthought.
Dr. Bridget Goosby, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who has worked thoroughly on the physiological and psychological impacts of discrimination, tells MTV News that when people are being discriminated against in their day-to-day lives, they can experience physical stress responses to those exposures.
Social media and the current news cycle play an influential role in adding to that stress. Goosby says that these two factors “provide more in-detail and in-the-moment exposures to injustices happening to people who share their social identities.” It’s a new, vicarious element of stress exposure in addition that exacerbates the already-existing layer of IRL discrimination.
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