My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.
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I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.
When you're biracial, you can feel like you're fully neither, not fully both. But I won't strip away my heritage for anyone's comfort.
I'm louder and bigger with my curls. There's power in that. Also, straight hair is kind of annoying. It gets caught in my collar.
Gender is a spectrum.
I like to think I know a lot, but I don't. I'm motivated to learn more.
I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, 'What in the world am I doing with my life?'