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...
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
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...
Robin Smiley, Kirkland, WA I’m a 74-year-old white female. I was born in California and mostly raised in the Seattle area. I taught school in...
The intimacy and authenticity of these responses, anonymous and otherwise, translate well to audio through the aid of a seemingly countless array of narrators. The...
Nate Martin, Port Angeles, WA Rogers and Hammerstein posited “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught,” and this certainly applies to blatant, flagrant hatred. But the...
Dulce K Struthers, Mount Vernon, WA I grew up undocumented and am still unlearning my behavior and ways of thinking to not draw attention to...
Charuta Apte, Sammamish, WA. I am an Indian, and teach in a under-served community in a school which is equally white, black and hispanic. In...
My experience Seattle, WA People say “reassuring” discounting things like “I never think of Asians as people of color, you’re like white people with funny...
Isabella Le, Seattle, WA Born in the United States, the body of three different cultures that continue to clash with each. Feeling more Vietnamese one...
Allison A, Yakima, WA. Sometimes it’s nanny, sometimes it’s babysitter or neighbor, but being asked if I was their grandmother was a first for me....
Loren Broyles, Spokane, WA. We all have our own path and yet we all want to be happy and avoid suffering.
Emily Vallies, Spokane, WA. I am happy to participate in a project like this. It is very important to me that people start realizing their...
Monica Mary Maul, Lakebay, WA I grew up in the central area of Seattle 1958 through the 1990’s. And my friends were of many skin...
Ruby Russoniello Tagaban, Ruston, WA I’ve spent much of my life greeted with “What are you?” It is neither a form of greeting nor an...
Tracy Staggers, Seattle, WA Obama is what America would like to be, Trump is what America is.
Jordyn Ducotey, Seattle, WA. Recent events have really made me challenge my own thoughts and the perceptions that I have been taught. I consciously make...
Alicia Villa, Spokane, WA. Collected from The Race Card Project, Spokane Falls Community College