It’s Getting Harder to Judge Identity by What We See

So maybe it’s time to reevaluate who gets to be called POC

Ruth Terry
ZORA
Published in
6 min readJul 18, 2019

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Crimean Tartar children. Photo: Rykoff Collection/Corbis Historical/Getty Images

II met my Turkish friend Didem last year when she offered to take my boyfriend and me out for çiğbörek, a large, deep-fried dumpling filled with savory meat and onions. We gathered at a tiny hole-in-the-wall in Aksaray, a working-class and immigrant enclave on Istanbul’s European…

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Ruth Terry
ZORA
Writer for

American freelancer in Istanbul writing about culture, mental health, race & travel. Bylines everywhere from Al Jazeera to Zora. Tw: @Ruth_Terry | IG: @ruth.ist