Cultural Brokers and Aliens

Abstract

Reflecting on the omnirelevant categories that inform our lives, we narrate our embodied experiences at the intersection of the social axes of differences informed by being transnationals in the United States. With a strong difference in our backgrounds as transnationals in the United States, we reflect on markers that highlight differences to incite resistance, acceptance, interrogation, and accommodation. Following Richardson’s format of writing, we use journal entries and an email conversation to discuss the interlocking ways in which social axes of differences play out in our lives and spaces of privileges that we occupy, creating normalcy for us until we have to engage in a contrasting experience challenging the normalcy. Finally, we argue that the interlocking ways in which we engage with various discursive spaces of difference blur efforts of resistance and accommodation by creating a permanent state of shuttling between intersected subject positions of difference.