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Here’s my biggest secret: I sometimes can’t pronounce my own name.
Eight letters and four syllables, yet my name presents infinite quandaries of inflection, unslanted vowels, and cross-continental conundrums. I’ve got the Magic 8-Ball of ethnic names: Shake me up, and you get a different answer every time. The truth is, I’m not always sure myself.
Growing up Indian in America, I’ve always felt like a part of me was lost in translation. My name, so beautiful in my parents’ native Tamil, doesn’t quite fit my flattened American accent. For the longest time, I couldn’t shake off the weight of my eight scarlet letters, making me incurably, inescapably different.
Updating Your Status: Pranjal Jain on Using Social Media as the Ultimate Tool For Change
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As long as you have a voice, you have power. Every comment, post, text, and video you share puts a piece of you into the world, and 19-year-old activist Pranjal Jain is using her social media to create a community where the voices of women globally can be heard.
Jain, now a sophomore at Cornell University, was 15 years old when she discovered she d spent the first seven years of her life as an undocumented immigrant. After reconciling the truth about her past, Jain decided to fully embrace her identities as an immigrant and a woman by sharing her experiences online. Conversations with friends quickly snowballed into open dialogues around taboo topics including menstruation equity, sexuality, and gender equality which inspired her to found Global Girlhood, a womxn-led organization encouraging women empowerment via storytelling.
Bay Area Indian Americans mobilize to send aid to COVID-affected families in India
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A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen inside a car provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021.Altaf Qadri/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Clockwise from bottom center, Sana Javeri Kadri and her partner Rosie Russell with Kadri s father Rahul, brother Aman Javeri Kadri and mother Shimul Javeri in Mumbai, India in March 2020. Sana Javeri Kadri, CEO of the Oakland-based spice company Diaspora Co., is calling for increased public awareness and financial support for India during its devastating second wave in the COVID-19 crisis.Courtesy Sana Javeri Kadri / Courtesy Sana Javeri KadriShow MoreShow Less