Afsheen Farhadi’s writing has appeared in Witness, Shadowgraph, and Sou’wester. He has an MFA degree from Oregon State University and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he has recently completed a novel. Feel free to follow him on his relatively new Twitter account @AfsheenFarhadi.
My racial awareness, perhaps even my awareness of myself as a person, self-consciousness, is a three-pronged paradox of shame, pride, and indifference.