Here are the links to a few pieces I’ve published. The thread of identity runs through all three works. The last article focuses on how culture impacts body image.
Essay: Soulfood Shiva, The Defenders Online. June, 2010
Soulfood Shiva is about the loss of my father to cancer, the question of how to still be me – to live, love and laugh in a world without him. I believe all our losses, all the painful experiences we live through add layers to our identity.
Essay: Being Both, Claiming Dual Identity as a Biracial Jew, Interfaithfamily.com. March 2006
Being Both was originally a talk I gave at a synogogue in New Jersey and, as you can guess from the title, deals with the condition of being a Biracial Jew.
Article: Eating Disorders and the Forces Behind the Cultural Drive for Thinness …
Social Work in Healthcare. Vol 20, No. 1, 1998
This article, the first piece I ever published, has a subtitle: Are African American Women Really Protected? This started as a grad school paper. See the related post from December 23.
Soulfood Shiva is so wonderful! What beautiful writing you have! A great story. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Gina Marie.
I read the 2006 piece on identity. Well written. Hurray for social workers who write! I almost went to Hunter too. Wound up in Israel. Different identity issues or non-issues. Nice to find your blog
Thanks for reading. Enjoyed your blog too.
I saw your article on Narrative.ly and wanted to share this with you:
My boss has a Yemenite-Israeli mother and an Austrian-Israeli father. I met his sister who has very dark skin and lives in Florida with her (White-American) husband.
She told me that her children are blonde and people often assume she’s the nanny.
Thanks for commenting, Jonathan. Yes–this is a very common experience for non-white parents of white-presenting, multiracial children. If she checks out http://multiracialmedia.com/ she will find many stories that validate hers!