Do you often feel like you don't belong?

Do you often feel like you don't belong? Like you don’t fit in here nor there? You feel alone in your experience. You're misunderstood, people just don’t fully get you.

You live in between experiences of oppression and privilege.

You’re never [Black/Queer/trans/fill-in-the-blank] enough.

You often shift who you are to fit into different contexts.

If you’re nodding right now, then you’re probably an n’betweener.

An n’betweener is an individual who navigates multiple identities at once. 

Who are we? We’re multicultural, we’re people of color, we’re queer, we’re trans, we’re multi-faith, we’re immigrants or children of immigrants and the list goes on. 

We navigate complexity everyday through the multiple identities we comprise.

We're all too familiar with feeling displaced, unheard and unseen.

As n’betweeners, we often feel alone in our experience. 

I am here to let you know that you are not. 

Yeeeeeeees! There is a whole community of n’betweeners. 

Each with our own unique story, but a general felt bodily experience that brings us together. A common experience that bonds us. Isn’t that beautiful?

But you’re gonna ask me: Nora, why is it helpful to know you are an n’betweener? 

Well, when you have language around your experience, you have the opportunity to transform your feelings of isolation into richness. 

As an n’betweener, you have a wonderful gift. You have an ability to be with complexity and nuance. 

When you notice how powerful it is to be an n’betweener, you won’t see it as a deficit, but rather a diverse and beautiful way to view and be in the world. 

Next week I’ll unpack how you can use your identity and your experience to discover the richness and power you possess. 

If this resonated with you, hit reply and tell me your experience as an n’betweener.

I’d love to hear from you.

Much love,

n’ora