What Kamala Harris' Historic Vice Presidency Means to This Brown Girl
Madam Vice President Aunty Kamala Harris. I’m crying. You can’t see me. But I am. It’s very hard to type. The Vice President of the United States is, for the first time in history, a woman. A Black woman. A woman of South Asian descent. I, too, am a woman of South Asian descent. An American girl, but also an Indian woman. Today something happened. I felt seen. Perhaps for the first time ever. It’s hard to put into words what this means to this brown girl in America. But I’ll try. I was raised by a matriarchy. An Indian matriarchy in America. (Oh, my Dad was there too, but he’ll gl...