New WritingðŸ’
New Writing: We Contain Multitudes
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As the daughter of an immigrant to the United States, I find myself often mulling over questions of identity - am I this or that? Do I need to choose? How does my heritage from both sides get passed down?
Part of what has fueled my interest in identity and the idea of ‘becoming ourselves’ stems from straddling two worlds of history, Spanish and Southern, as I make sense of them for myself.Â
The most freedom has come in accepting my story for all the beauty and complexity it has offered me. And I think in part that is the best way our stories serve all of us.