My body in and of itself is a mosaic of heritages: my mouth, my hair, my skin color, not to mention the language with which I express myself and my beliefs. We are thrown into the world with an inheritance, for the “colonized”, this inheritance is even more complex. Franz Fanon insists that “the colonized man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term”, and he couldn’t be more right. The history of many peoples was suddenly fragmented by a foreign language, a political scheme, a religion, and Julia Kristeva emphasizes our innate foreignness. Handle with Care is a warning asking us to address our self-reflections, our fragile identities, understanding that we all are already foreigners.
*All text fragments were taken from the book "Foreigners to Ourselves" by Julia Kristeva
