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I read for fun, but also to remember that people (both those like me and unlike me) have rich inner worlds and deep complexities. I prefer to read stoI read for fun, but also to remember that people (both those like me and unlike me) have rich inner worlds and deep complexities. I prefer to read stories about minorities because so often narratives about them are couched in simplicity. People of color don't go about life thinking about their identities, it just happens to be a part of them, but every so often you are reminded that people perceive you as "other" "foreign" or hard to understand.
This quote from a Refinery29 article, just about sums it up -- "a stranger asking me where I’m from doesn’t horrify me — it just jolts me out of place. Suddenly I’m looking at myself from outside my own body, as an object to perceive and scrutinize."
Reading flips the narrative of the "other" or the "object" on its head. ...more
