“Unveiling Identity: How Names Bind Us in Kate Lu Sedor’s Captivating Exploration”
Someone who I hoped had seen me had instead seen my last name, determined it was not European in origin, and delivered the most “exotic” pronunciation of it she could — and in doing so, she’d erased me so utterly, my own mother hadn’t been able to find me, dark matter swallowed up by a dark room.
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About ten years after the incident at the awards ceremony, an acquaintance of mine asked me to join him on a panel that was to be presented at the local pop culture convention. The topic — diversity and minority representation in the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises — interested me, so I agreed.
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