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just-rogi · 1 year ago

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We had to do a diversity exercise at work today and the (white) proctor asked all the teachers if we knew anyone who felt like they belonged to two groups… except the entire room was female teachers of color it felt so fucking stupid

#I also talked about my experience as a levant American lesbian in diaspora and how I felt so torn #identifying a certain way where Arabic is still foreign to me and I’ve never been to Lebanon #but the people on the news being bombed look like my mother and everyone keeps mispronouncing names of places that I’ve known since I was #a child #and how I don’t feel Lebanese enough to say anything meaningful but just enough to hurt deeply and personally #especially when people use ‘they hate gay people’ as a gotcha knowing love from my mother and my grandmother #and how I feel torn #and she nodded sagely and said her husband’s family moved to the Middle East when he was younger and even though he’s white he feels like #it’s his home #so he feels torn because he understands both sides #and I felt like walking out of the meeting right there

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