Articles about privileged white women trying to “have it all” ignore the fact that women of color have been balancing life and work out of necessity.
The only thing I have grown to hate more than the term “having it all” is the debate about whether or not women can have it all. To be clear, I have been roped into this debate myself on more than one occasion, but I usually find myself doing what I just did: critiquing how pointless it is in some ways.
But in a powerful new essay for the Natio
