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A review by drraytay
Alien Nation: A Celebration of Immigration from the Stage to the Page by Sofija Stefanovic
4.0
Alien Nation is a collection of 36 stories of immigrants from all over the world told on stage in NYC. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the stories. Some were funny, some were deeply moving, all were eye opening and worthy of our time. Two of my favorites were True Identity and A Little Tattle-Tale Around the Nannying Gig.
In True Identity, Tatenda Ngwara tells her story as an asylum seeker from Zimbabwe. She was forced out of her country when she started advocating for intersex and transgender people. Her father gave her his last dollar so she could “go somewhere she will be accepted as a human and a citizen who deserves human rights.” She tells of the struggles and roadblocks of being an asylum seeker in America who is also a Black woman who is intersex. “The only way we can break down barriers is to familiarize people with what it means to be intersex. It is biological. It is not a choice.”
In A Little Tattle-Tale Around the Nannying Gig, Christine Yvette Lewis tells her story of moving to into her sister’s home in The Bronx from Trinidad and Tobago to seek a better life for herself and her daughter. She speaks deftly about caregivers knowing their worth after finding a community with the other nannies at a Central Park playground.
In True Identity, Tatenda Ngwara tells her story as an asylum seeker from Zimbabwe. She was forced out of her country when she started advocating for intersex and transgender people. Her father gave her his last dollar so she could “go somewhere she will be accepted as a human and a citizen who deserves human rights.” She tells of the struggles and roadblocks of being an asylum seeker in America who is also a Black woman who is intersex. “The only way we can break down barriers is to familiarize people with what it means to be intersex. It is biological. It is not a choice.”
In A Little Tattle-Tale Around the Nannying Gig, Christine Yvette Lewis tells her story of moving to into her sister’s home in The Bronx from Trinidad and Tobago to seek a better life for herself and her daughter. She speaks deftly about caregivers knowing their worth after finding a community with the other nannies at a Central Park playground.