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The Changeling
A personal essay in which How to Write an Autobiographical Novel author Alexander Chee considers how answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
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The Changeling
Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
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You Are What You Hear
A personal essay in which Pauline Campos writes about trying to forget the harsh words she heard about her body as a child, and to avoid passing along her body shame to her young daughter.
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Parsing Her Identity With A Long-Lost Folder, Plus the Internet
A.M. Homes wrestles with her ambivalence toward learning more about her birth parents and the circumstances of her adoption.
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Wherever You Go, There You Are. Charles Manson is There, Too.
Do we carry pieces of our younger selves with us, even as we grow and change?
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On Identity, Miyazaki, and Japanese Bathhouses
On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.
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What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity
On the wonder and strangeness of occupying a perpetually in-between space.
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Growing Up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant
Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in the Palouse region of Washington State.
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The Great Divide: Growing up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant
“Through the years, I stopped feeling pressured to either be less Japanese or more Japanese, and decided just to be. It became easier when I found someone who helped me remain intact.” Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in […]