Much of how I have felt for long:

"Seeing and keeping ourselves central, never marginal. 
For some years know, writers of color have been discussing the experience of living in the margins while white people are living in the center. 

In one of her early books, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston: South End Press, 1984), Bell Hooks defines it: 
To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body…
Living as we did − on the edge − we developed a particular way of seeing reality. 
We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out. 
We focused our attention on the center as well as on the margin. (p.ix.)"




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this is what I drew last nite, not the most celebratory...