But Jewish first-graders are still sitting alone in the morning meeting, and synagogues still don’t feel safe. Anti-Semitism is rising; it is not old news.
These women should be commended for what they do achieve rather than criticized for what they don’t; expectations should be minimal and consistent across gender.
To be Arab is to strip myself of my Blackness, and I am no longer willing to reduce myself for the acceptance of others. I am not Arab, and I am not just Black. I am Sudani — a descendant from the land of the Blacks.
My Asianness and femininity are defined by everything that the world attempts to claim that they are not. In this divergence, I not only recover my heritage — I find myself.
No woman is capable of escaping misogyny in day-to-day life, which demonstrates how far our society is from truly treating women with the respect that they deserve.
