I spent the first few months in the Diaspora giving baristas American names like “Samantha, just Sammy for short,” instead of my [also] three-syllable name because unless you stop to listen to my name’s pronunciation, you’ll hear “Shina”, “Sheemuh”, and unless you stop to ask me where I am from,...
Ania Siniuk & Illustration: Hasheemah Afaneh