The Minority: To Represent or Not?

Rehenuma
Meadville, PA

As an Asian American Muslim women, I have been asked many times to represent my “people.” As I have gotten older, I no longer feel eager to do so. I am now more sensitive to who benefits from this type of representation and the effect it has on my own psyche. Sometimes, one just wants to be.


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