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eat the damn pizza bruh
Today is Equal Pay Day. On average, a woman in the U.S. has to work until today — March 25th — to earn what a white man was paid in 2024. 🪙🙅🏽♀️💵
And the gender wage gap is even worse for women of color. Compared to white men:
💲 Latina and Native women earn 58 cents
💲 Black women earn 66 cents
💲 White women earn 80 cents
💲 Asian American women earn 94 cents
If you care about wages and pay inequality, the politicians WE elect can create policies to address it. Make sure you are registered to vote right now at WhenWeAllVote.org/check.
Falling Through The Floor
I took the cheque home and folded it in half. Then again. Then again. Until it was a sharp little square I could press into my palm. It didn’t feel like money. It felt like silence.
The job was good. Rare these days for someone like me. And when he leaned too close and said too much - breath hot and stale with knowing - I only smiled.
Afterward, I kept working. Of course I did.
At the end of the week the cheque came, same as always. it felt heavier this time. Like hush money.
And I took it anyway. Because that’s what you do when the alternative is falling through the floor.
