Back To School Has Long Meant Twice The Work For Racialized Moms

“You have work harder and do better than everyone else. Nothing less will do.”This was the mantra in my home at back-to-school season.In fact, as an 11-year-old girl moving from my grandmother’s home in Jamaica to join my family in Canada, this expectation was instilled from the start. It was as clear to me as the shift from sunny southern warmth to frigid northern storms. In my new home, “working harder” was sometimes left as an unspoken expectation for me and all