Surviving Racism [psmag.com]

Alicia Doktor 5/9/184:00 AM

I used to will chaos into my life. It was a gift of sorts. Mother said I was born to Thunder—which is an element of chaos and liberation in my culture. I have always believed that an electric chaos ran through my blood.

"It's a gift to be born this way," my mother said, the first time I told her that I had a terrible dream of a large wheel spinning before me. It would not stop. "That is Thunder. This is a gift."

She saw the world differently, and I by proxy. Her willful nature to name the world as she saw it, not how they wanted us to see it, made me believe in the power of being an indigenous woman.

[For more on this story by TERESE MARIE MAILHOT, go to https://psmag.com/magazine/sil...-on-surviving-racism]

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