See Your Skin Podcast

During my writing process I explored the idea of belonging. After watching several  videos and reading excerpts that described how we find our identity. It helped me to examine bigger ideas such as the process of building our identity and how many factors go into the destruction of our identity. But I’ve came to the conclusion that our identity can’t be destructed unless we allow it to be. Our identity can be reconstructed, because throughout life we will have different encounters that help us shape and form our identity. Another idea that stuck out to me during my research was that we do form our identity based off of others people projections,because when we come into this world we are told things and we base our own projections on their own.

I’m very happy with the outcome of my essay and podcast. I was able to interview my family members and understand their perspective on belonging and forming our identity. In the future I want to be comfortable with educating people about identity and I also want to stay comfortable in my own skin and not rely on the presence of others.


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Kai Burton (Student 2017)
Kai Burton

It was interesting to listen to your moms first scene of memory and how she reacted to the little girl calling her a nigger. I know that if that was me I would probably burst into tears and wouldn't be able to make it home. It is also interesting and good that all the neighbors rallied around your mom. What ended up happening to the little girl? Did anyone go to her house and tell her mom off.