[Ariana] Brown’s poem “Inhale: The Ceremony” speaks to her relationship to her ancestors, a history that she said is often unacknowledged or disrespected. “I’m never racialized as Latina. I’m always racialized as black. My whole identity isn’t acknowledged [and] I’m assumed to be an outsider in almost every space I enter. That is a very isolating feeling,” she said.
Corinne Segal, “How poet Ariana Brown became the Afro-Latina role model she needed,” PBS NewsHour, February 8, 2016. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/how-poet-ariana-brown-became-the-afro-latina-role-model-she-needed/.
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