a note from the author
is it fair for someone who has known no hardship to speak of a land that has gone through so much?
no, is what I tell myself every time. still, my voice matters. my experiences matter.
I have grown in the states, in a city that is a melting pot of culture, and grown up with people from everyone.
I have grown from school, grown from wanting to be everyone, everything, and knowing I have that opportunity.
so here. my unfiltered thoughts about being a girl of Indian heritage but American culture.
a grey area.
Table of Content
1. Home
in which our main character explores the concept of coming from one place but belonging in another
2. Family
in which she explores the norms and exceptions of growing up in an Indian family
3. Mixed
in which she meets a 1/2 Indian 1/2 white girl and learns what that can mean
4. School
in which we struggle with the idea of being enough and the expectation of being enough and what those mean relative to each other
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crown jewel
Poetryto come from a land with 22 national languages and to speak none a land with 33 million gods and believe in none a land of ancestors and know none is not an easy thing
