Queer and Pakistani. Not a contradiction
Aleenah Ansari, Seattle, WA I didn’t choose to be queer, but I can choose to live authentically, to stoke conversations about queerness in communities of...
Born white, Pakistani Heart, International soul
Marilyn Gardner, Boston, MA. Born in the United States, Grew up in Pakistan. Hold American passport. Birthed 5 kids on 3 continents. Now trying to...
No I am still from India
Amal Nazeem, Shrewsbury, MA. My parents are Muslims from Southern India. Growing up, I had many friends from all over India. They were mostly Hindu...
Doesn’t include only blacks and whites.
Anonymous USA I’m Indian and Pakistani and often feel left out of the “race discussions” which only involve two races
I am always missing some of me
Yasmin Gill Baltimore, MD My mother is white, American, and my father is Pakistani. Where ever I go, and whomever I am with, I rarely...
Seen as black only by Americans!
Joel Anthony Murray, Sr. Westminster, MD. Iranians in DC thought I was Iranian. A Tunisian on a train with me to NY thought I was...
Lose business because of Pakistani Muslim.
Amjad Saleem Wilson, NC I am gas station owner in Wilson, NC. My business was good last 3 years, My business became down day by...
Looking Muslim is NOT a crime…
Talha Baqar San Francisco, CA Being a Pakistani-American, you feel neither here nor there. Here you are a terrorist hell bent on destroying the country,...
