I also can’t avoid the fact that in my case, it isn’t safe for me to unmask in a lot of situations. As a Black, queer woman who also is forced to code-switch to survive in a racist, sexist, and queerphobic society, I don’t have the latitude to unmask to the same extent that an autistic white man can. For them, unmasking is a privilege. As the society I live in was never designed for anyone with my …
