As a mixed [-race] girl, there's always a visible and invisible side of you; there's a place you inhabit and place you desert,” she says. "How does the place that you don't live in influence you? (Mati Diop)

As a mixed [-race] girl, there's always a visible and invisible side of you; there's a place you inhabit and place you desert,” she says. "How does the place that you don't live in influence you?

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