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AVIVA BROWN Hi! I'm Aviva Brown, a black, Jewish wife, and mother of four biracial kids, aged 10, 8, 5, and 3 months. I’m currently writing a children’s book about our colorful Jewish family. So many adjectives, describing my life—black, Jewish, woman, mother, convert.  I’m still becoming these things, becoming fully myself.  It’s challenging. Addressing Representation I began ...

I get stares from people of all ages - I find people have a natural desire to categorize me before they speak to me, but I fuck up their ethnicity-determining algorithm somehow. Spanish speakers act surprised when I can’t answer back in Spanish. Many people will make small talk just long enough to ask which tan-skinned ...