#it also feels like Arab erasure lowkey but I’m trying not to interpret it aggressively

[stuckinapril]

At a point in my life where coming off as racially ambiguous is bothering me bc I want to be proudly Arab more than ever before

#like I get how w my name (which I love & would never trade for the world but I still get that it’s not an Arabic name) #which is fine bc it doesn’t have to be for it to fit me. cianna is so delightful and pretty and unique no matter the origins. #& w my looks. which I recognize are not the stereotypical way ppl would perceive arab people maybe #that ppl would be thrown off. but people have projected every race ever onto me before guessing I’m Arab and I think that’s insane #I don’t get why people are always surprised bc I genuinely don’t think it’s that hard of a conclusion to arrive at #my sister is LICHERALLY a redhead. #my mom is a blonde. #not all Arabs look a certain way it’s not that deep #I would never change my name or how I look like. all these things suit me like nothing else #but I’m not white I’m not mixed I’m not Latina. I’m Arab. period #it also feels like Arab erasure lowkey but I’m trying not to interpret it aggressively #I don’t want people to argue w me about my arabness based on how I look like or what I was named. I’m Arab bc I am?? that is all. #ANYWAY I relate to Nancy Ajram bc English first name and Arabic surname gang. and racially ambiguous. n yet she’s still THE Arab pop queen #p