Nadia Karizat: Divided into nothingPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Media Archive, United States on 2016-06-09 19:58Z by Steven |
Nadia Karizat: Divided into nothing
The Michigan Daily
2016-05-18
There are moments in my life that have burned me silently and set me up for questioning what I am. I say “what” and not “who” because I know who I am. I am someone who believes that the best moments are spontaneous, that music cures all and that the most fun thing one can do on a Saturday night is sit with friends and discuss our exquisite lives. I am also a biracial (Arab and White [Italian]) woman from Michigan who’s checked “other” on every single form she’s needed to fill out since she was 8 years old and made aware that society felt the need to force all her complexities into a single box…
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