Reflection On My Identity

Currently, I am in the process of not only becoming comfortable in my identity, a black queer woman, but, also attempting to find solace in my identity as well. Something that all women, especially black queer women, should achieve in their lifetime. It is that dream that inspires me to travel to experience other cultures and to unite with women from various cultures across the black diaspora. Throughout many cultures, women’s identities are defined by their male counterparts and the labor they provide to them. Therefore, a major goal of mine is to create a space where women are able to exist outside the scope of their relationships with men and live uninhibitedly to become their best selves. That is why I find it pertinent to travel not only

Need a hook In this essay I will be talking about 3 major aspects that make up me. The 3 key aspects of my identity are running and art which are my abilities and reading which is one of my values.

Every year I look back on the previous and I see how much I have changed. I see the friends I have gained and lost. The heartbreak and the happiness. Despite how rough times have gotten, it has truly made me stronger. Everything has shaped who I am today, it has shaped my identity. Identity is a complex topic because it consists of changeable and unchangeable traits and outside internal influences; my own identity has been shaped by going from private to public school, young life camp, and my current friends.

Identity meaning the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another; the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish or identify a person or thing. In other words, your identity is the main thing that separates you from the other seven billion people on your planet, if you don’t know your identity then who are you? Although, everyone has a special skill or talent that makes you unique no matter how small your gift may seem. People have skills and talents in areas such as playing an instrument, playing sports, being creative, artistic, acting, singing, etc. People realize their gifts at different stages in their lives. When each of us brings our individual talents and skills together, the world becomes a masterpiece of a painting.

As far as identity and experiences go, I can easily follow how their effects mold my values and perception of the world. Many aspects of my education and childhood, for example, correspond pretty directly with general areas of privilege. I am White, able-bodied, and have always lived in relative safety. These are traits that I, and others like me, often take for granted, paying little attention to the societal structures that arbitrate them as advantages. Even among the places where my identity does deviate from dominant culture, many seem trivial within a bigger picture: born while my mother was in college, only one parent with a degree, a young childhood with much less money than I remember having in my later years. These, and many others, of course, had their impacts, but not on a scale that prepares me for bigger issues. In many ways, I have led a privileged life, and truthfully, this has made me apprehensive about whether I actually have any qualification that legitimizes me as an authority over countless students whose stories I can barely even fathom in the abstract.

I feel like the most challenging thing for me was explaining my identity box item. I probably over thought the assignment, but personally finding something that symbolizes my identity or has a deep meaning to me was kind of difficult. I am not really deeply involved in my culture or any of these categories. It made me question whether I should be more in touch with these identities, since I do not feel a strong connection to them. For the most part I feel like these labels separate us and bring us farther apart as human beings. They divide us by what makes us different, instead of focusing on how we are all the same. On the other hand, something I found socially challenging in this class is getting myself to be more involved in participating. Since I have severe social anxiety this class makes me talk more than I normally would in a class. Although, I do not think

Today being able to identify yourself is such a huge controversy. Are you female or male or transgender? These are all labels to me. Determining who you are is much deeper than physical appearance. It’s who you are not what you are. I am trinity. I am a young aspiring neurologist, and I faced many adversities and obstacles that tried to swayed me from my path of success but instead the wind blew from behind and pushed me to excel faster. This wind I speak of the wind that pushes my wa’a or canoe, and the canoe is my method of transportation to my destination. My destination is my goal or destiny and my support is my paddle. I am my paddle. Every crack of faded spot represents my struggles. The first crack presented itself in 2014 when I was diagnosed with graves disease.

I hate when people say “I don’t care if you’re Black, White, Asian, etc.” You should care. Do not erase who I am to make yourself feel comfortable. Do not erase my identity by saying race doesn’t matter. Colorblind ideology will not fix racism. Do not ignore my identity or anyone else’s identity because you’re uncomfortable. Recognize my race and ethnicity and respect that.

I am truly proud of my background and how it has formed my identity. My background consists of me being Portuguese. I could not be any more thankful for how greatly my background has impacted my life into what it is now. It has helped me gain many friends that I am still very close to and gain interests that have started since I was a child. Simply experiencing my family’s numerous customs and traditions is why I love to express that I am Portuguese. It has given me the opportunity to visit Portugal every year during each summer where I fall in love with the country each time. Being Portuguese has taught me many lessons throughout life that I will continue to pass on for future generations of my family.

Identity. Identity is kind of a funny thing. It is the thing that makes us who we are. I come from a ranching and rodeo and logging background. My mom was a barrel racer with my vice principal, Mrs.Fuzico. My dad was a real horseman and logger when he was younger. He had a couple horses and was good no... GREAT at riding and handling horses. My grandma, dad, and childhood have impacted my identity.

I am a student, with a meaningful background and identity. If I did not explain and share my story you would not understand who I am as a person, a student, an athlete, a friend, sibling, or a daughter. Just like any other student I qualify for many titles, but my titles are affected by my identity and background. I am a student diagnosed with a severe mental illness.

It is easy to see oneself as the same person we were ten, twenty, or fifty years ago. We can define identity through our physical presence, life experiences, memories, and mental awareness of self. One can testify our persistence as a person through our existence as a person. But what makes us the same person? In this paper, I will argue for the “simple” view of the persistence of identity – that it is impossible to determine what single thing that makes us the same person over time. I will support my claim with the refutation of the main complex view claims of the body, brain and psychological continuity criterion.

I have tagged you so you see this in your notifications In 2013 i have told my mum that i am transgender and after a while i hid it from everyone because i was thinking "Is this what i want or is this just a phase?" It took me 3 years to figure out the answer and the answer i got was yes (this was figured out 3 weeks ago)... I have decided that i will try and transition today/tomorrow.

All throughout my life, I have always wanted to be the best that I can possible be. I have always been driven to be the best student in my classes and be well liked by everyone around me. Up until college, I truly thought that I was unique in every way and that I was unlike other people because of my hard work and compassion towards others. I thought that I had worked hard to get where I was, and my hard work alone was the only thing that made me stand out among others. Especially when I was applying to colleges, I thought that I was going to get into college based on my good grades and extra circulars. Looking back now, I realized that many of the opportunities I have received in my life have not been because I am just a hard worker, but

Everybody has an identity, it makes them individual and unique, and it defines who you are as a person. This project about my identity showed me what makes me unique. I would have never known how much my friends mean to me or how my identities connect with each other. I have three identities that make me who I am, cultural, personal, and social. A specific quality that covers my cultural identity is being Czechoslovakian. Both sides of my family have at least a part of Czech in them. My great-grandparents are from Czech Republic and my grandpa was the first generation in America, he was born in Ohio. This is very important because I have always identified as Czech and it is a big part of me, as I am so interested in ancestry. For my personal identity, the biggest part is my personality, being loud and outgoing, has always been important to me. The reason being, it is how people view me. A lot of people know me as the loud person or the person who talks a lot. That is meaningful to me considering I like people to view me in a certain way The last identity, social, is one of the most important to me because it involves my friends, and through this project, I learned how vital they really are to my social identity. I realized that I have a good amount of friends in this project. It is nice to have people as a support system and to relate with. These qualities show that I value being loud and outgoing. It also says that I value my family and they are a big part of life. The last one, social, ties in with the first one because it shows I am outgoing and friendly.