"Estrangement is a constant theme in all of my work. The thing that makes it really difficult is people will look at me and not understand why I feel like an outsider, or why I couldnāt belong in all kind of circumstances. Iām one of those people who visually presents as whoever you wantāwhatever ethnicity or race is predominant. For me, the challenge is always figuring out what peopleās assumptions are, and how I can actually take up space against their assumptions. Because theyāre almost always wrong about who I am. Thatās a hard thing to get used to in Americaā¦"
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On how the theme of estrangement still applied to her memoir Sick in āPorochista Khakpour: āThis Was the Sort of Book You Write to Stay Aliveā in Bookish (2018 Jun 8)
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