Nurul Hana Mohammed Rafee
Nurul Hana Mohammed Rafee
Intersectionality: From Identity to Trauma and Back Again
Raised in Post-9/11 America, it was hard to be a second-generation Asian American woman from a Muslim family. It was through reading fantasy books, doodling endless kitties, and watching dinosaur movies that I demonstrated to my peers that I was different from the stereotype. My angsty adolescence was all about breaking away from cultural ties. Childhood seems worlds away now, but the desire and need to banish the soul-crushing assumptions of the ignorant persists. Through my work as a designer, I explore the diverse and often conflicting avenues of my identity, and how these intersect, and not infrequently bypass, American history and society. Every day, the questions beg, “Where do I fit into this world?” and “How can I help people like me?”
Nurul Hana Mohammed Rafee
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