‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity
Too Foreign for Home, Too Foreign for Here: Trying to Balance My Japanese and Argentinian Cultures
One year, as a gift for my birthday, my sister gave me a poetry book by Ijeoma Umebinyuo. It contains my favourite poem to date, which spoke to me on some unnamable level. It reads:
So, here you are, too foreign for home, too foreign for here. Never enough for both.
‘A Cultural Battleground’: Balancing My British and South Indian Identities and Embracing Duality
Being born in Kerala, India, and then living in Mumbai for a year as a baby with my parents are two years of my childhood that I cannot recall. But it inevitably cemented for my family the idea that I am a true Malayali. Even when we migrated to the United Kingdom in 2002, this belief was passed on to me as I grew up among a different population…