Welcome to the third episode of Clare-ification! Today I share something deeply personal and honest with you all, a little story of my life as I try to explain where I am from. As a person with parents from two cultures, I've had the privilege of having an abundance of experiences. But sometimes, this world of binaries and strict classification has left me feeling excluded in ways I haven't been able to describe... Until now. Listen along to learn about racial essentialism, visual saliency theory and read an excerpt from The Sex Lives of African Women with me!