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At 48, why does she, the artist, want to explore her father’s story? Can she not just be satisfied with who she is now? She’s said that she always has wanted to know more but she feels like a lone island. Her mother’s family has been hurtful and mean when she said she wanted to know more. They said she was looking for a terrorist… and that she was hurting her mother. Growing up without a dad, it feels off, like a missing limb. Throughout the years she scoured the San Francisco library, the internet, reached out to people and organisations and even did a DNA test. “Surprise, you have a sister.” And as she looked for clues about herself in the eyes and features of Iranian friends and acquaintances, she felt fraudulent. Culturally, linguistically she feels like a naive ignorant white blob with just the brown unibrow and a prominent nose as all to prove that she is part of him, this him(ness), the Iranian man who came to America. The brief, violent injection of sperm into her mother’s…
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At 48, why does she, the artist, want to explore her father’s story? Can she not just be satisfied with who she is now? She’s said that she always has wanted to know more but she feels like a lone island. Her mother’s family has been hurtful and mean when she said she wanted to know more. They said she was looking for a terrorist… and that she was hurting her mother. Growing up without a dad, it feels off, like a missing limb. Throughout the years she scoured the San Francisco library, the internet, reached out to people and organisations and even did a DNA test. “Surprise, you have a sister.” And as she looked for clues about herself in the eyes and features of Iranian friends and acquaintances, she felt fraudulent. Culturally, linguistically she feels like a naive ignorant white blob with just the brown unibrow and a prominent nose as all to prove that she is part of him, this him(ness), the Iranian man who came to America. The brief, violent injection of sperm into her mother’s…
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