identity


A woman gazes out of an airplane window.

I have yet to fully embrace traveling alone and that’s okay

Claire Cheek
A young Girl Scout holding an Armenian flag

Being part Middle Eastern made me feel like an imposter

Camilla Selian Meeker
[Image Description: book cover of "The Vanishing Half." Two rainbow female silhouettes "vanishing" into each other] via Vox.

Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” is a timely tale about white-passing privilege

Afsha Kasam

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Why you shouldn’t expect a life lesson from every country you visit

Amal Als
Jess from New Girl wearing glasses with a confused expression on her face

Jess from New Girl makes me feel validated in my awkwardness

Maggie Mahoney
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Hungary is using the pandemic to end recognition of its transgender community

Beatriz Valero de Urquia

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I’m Kashmiri – poetry helped me embrace that

Anusha Wangnoo

My name is not difficult to pronounce

Kajal Premnath

I decided to step off the treadmill and let my body be

Modupe Adio

[Image description: Woman holds onto the fence, looking to the camera.] Photo by Khadija Yousaf on Unsplash

It’s exhausting growing up Muslim and brown in post-9/11 Britain

Aafiyah Shaikh
Two women side-by-side with their backs to the camera, one in a bright pink dress and the other in lime green.

How a popular West African robe blends mainstream fashion with cultural expression

Modupe Adio
Woman looking at a lake

As a Jewish person, I carry the trauma of the generations before me

Julia Métraux