Erica Bailey

That to some extent can be a way to connect with other people, but it's really difficult to convince people that you're being authentic, especially if they have it in their heads that they're not gonna try to understand you or they're not gonna take your perspective or they're gonna view you through a stereotypical lens.

That to some extent can be a way to connect with other people, but it's really difficult to convince people that you're being authentic, especially if they have it in their heads that they're not gonna try to understand you or they're not gonna take your perspective or they're gonna view you through a stereotypical lens.

And so what I usually tell people is authenticity is worth pursuing for its own sake, for you, for your well-being in places where you feel that you can be authentic safely. What other people think about you, that's their business.

And so what I usually tell people is authenticity is worth pursuing for its own sake, for you, for your well-being in places where you feel that you can be authentic safely. What other people think about you, that's their business.

And so what I usually tell people is authenticity is worth pursuing for its own sake, for you, for your well-being in places where you feel that you can be authentic safely. What other people think about you, that's their business.

And I think all I can say is create healthy distance between other people's perceptions of you and your authentic pursuits to discover who you are and to find places where you can bring that forward.

And I think all I can say is create healthy distance between other people's perceptions of you and your authentic pursuits to discover who you are and to find places where you can bring that forward.

And I think all I can say is create healthy distance between other people's perceptions of you and your authentic pursuits to discover who you are and to find places where you can bring that forward.

Well, it sounds like she has a book to write that I want to read. That's also close to my heart. My advisor is blind and always talking to her about her sense of self and how she's viewed in the world and how she experienced going to grad school in the 90s, for example, is just completely different than the way that I've experienced the world.

Well, it sounds like she has a book to write that I want to read. That's also close to my heart. My advisor is blind and always talking to her about her sense of self and how she's viewed in the world and how she experienced going to grad school in the 90s, for example, is just completely different than the way that I've experienced the world.

Well, it sounds like she has a book to write that I want to read. That's also close to my heart. My advisor is blind and always talking to her about her sense of self and how she's viewed in the world and how she experienced going to grad school in the 90s, for example, is just completely different than the way that I've experienced the world.

And it's so fascinating to understand people who experience the world differently than you do. So I would love to read her book should she ever write it. I'm kind of a funny academic where I mostly read fiction books, and I kind of don't read academic-y self-help books, even though they might be very helpful. I would say the one academic book that I'll recommend is a classic.

And it's so fascinating to understand people who experience the world differently than you do. So I would love to read her book should she ever write it. I'm kind of a funny academic where I mostly read fiction books, and I kind of don't read academic-y self-help books, even though they might be very helpful. I would say the one academic book that I'll recommend is a classic.

And it's so fascinating to understand people who experience the world differently than you do. So I would love to read her book should she ever write it. I'm kind of a funny academic where I mostly read fiction books, and I kind of don't read academic-y self-help books, even though they might be very helpful. I would say the one academic book that I'll recommend is a classic.

It's Irving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. A lot of these ideas about society as a social performance, about people with stigmatized identities where other people would judge them or make

It's Irving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. A lot of these ideas about society as a social performance, about people with stigmatized identities where other people would judge them or make

It's Irving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. A lot of these ideas about society as a social performance, about people with stigmatized identities where other people would judge them or make

inferences about them because of a visible or invisible identity are really something that he thought about in the 60s but in terms of books like fiction books i feel are a really great place to explore narratives by being in someone else's head you get to experience the world through someone else in a safe environment you know sitting on your couch but you're fighting dragons or you're uh

inferences about them because of a visible or invisible identity are really something that he thought about in the 60s but in terms of books like fiction books i feel are a really great place to explore narratives by being in someone else's head you get to experience the world through someone else in a safe environment you know sitting on your couch but you're fighting dragons or you're uh

inferences about them because of a visible or invisible identity are really something that he thought about in the 60s but in terms of books like fiction books i feel are a really great place to explore narratives by being in someone else's head you get to experience the world through someone else in a safe environment you know sitting on your couch but you're fighting dragons or you're uh