Who I am in terms of my marginalized identities has helped me to better understand how to navigate this world. It has given me a vocabulary and community to process with. My lived spaces that I navigate. The work of my positionality is unlearning the oppressive narratives i grew up being taught. I am working to understand the different intersecting lenses through which I read the world. But sometimes I internalize what I see as a flaw in my character instead of what it actually is, a misrepresentation of my experience. Learning more about who I am and working to unlearn what the world has tried to tell me about myself has been quite a journey, I am not sure I have processed it enough to try and speak on to in this moment.
Linda Mindaye (CYES Class of 2019)
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