08/07/2020
Erasure of Identity:
The contraction/nickname, “Vee” was “given” to me by a 6th grade teacher in middle school. She was white, like the majority of my teachers in Clarkstown and couldn’t be bothered to learn my name.
I adapted, to survive. I didn’t have a voice enough or the courage to correct every single person who butchered my name.
Vee was released in a bonfire.
May she RIP
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