Know Your Worth
Conflating Worth with Humanity is Inherently Flawed
7 min readMay 10, 2022
I’ve heard many iterations of “know your worth” throughout my adult life. We’re told the phrase is meant to empower, to inform me that I dictate the value of my time as I work to survive the death camps of whiteness. This phrase is meant to convey that I’m the master of my fate.
