Agency/What Does It Mean?

It starts small. You don't protest when you're being spoken over. You look the other way. Ignore it like it's second nature. Remove yourself from the situation. You deescalate your feelings.

You start feeling disenfranchised, little by little. And yet your internal alarms haven't gone off yet. Are you the frog in the boiling water? Sometimes you marvel at the audacity. You are more amused than angry. To speak over you. To speak for you.

And then pat themselves on the back for a job well done. You're a token. A commodity. A show pony. A workhorse. "But if we give you a seat at the table, you'll want to be treated as an equal"

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