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Anila Umar
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This past Christmas season I went to watch my friend Sara perform in a choir. Her two nieces were there; Hannah is eight and Emily is six. To their delight, they counted that I was wearing seventeen pieces of jewelry, ten of them were piercings.

To little girls, this looks really pretty, but to most people I know, including my own family, seven earrings on one ear is just six too many. When I tell them I am about to get five more piercings on my right ear and then pierce that little flap of cartilage at the opening of my ears as well, they look at me like I’ve totally lost my mind.

For as long as I can remember, my paternal grandmother, Suriya, has been the single most important woman in my life. For almost twenty years she told me the story of her paternal grandmother and of her own mother, Halima, both of whom had many piercings. It was a part of their culture. Every woman pierced her ears that way. By the time my grandmother Suriya was born in 1910, the fashion had faded and although she thought her mother and grandmother both looked beautiful, she was not allowed to adorn herself the same way.

My grandmother told me that when she was a little girl, she used to stare at a picture of her grandmother and wish that she could look as beautiful as her. I’ve always found the parallels in our lives amazing. As a little girl, I often stared at her and wished that I could look just like her. So one day I asked her for a picture of her grandmother. We searched for a very long time, but could not find the one she had kept.

My grandmother passed away in 2001. Four years later, among her things, I finally found her grandmother’s photograph and immediately began with the process of looking like her. My own mother, Hamda, has been the most supportive of this process. She says it is important for me to connect with my culture and my history in my own way. I know my “Western-ness” has been a struggle for her. She says that with her mother she felt a generation gap, but culturally they were the same. With me, she sees a young woman, her daughter, who is not only from another generation, but another culture and way of life.

For this reason and many more, this process of transformation I am currently in is my attempt to bridge our divide and honor the beautiful strong women who came before me. In my heart I am like them all. This is my opportunity to show the world where I come from and to whom I belong. It is my way of connecting with the women my soul has loved through many generations and ways of life. Before 2006 is over, I hope to boast a beautiful fifteen piercings in my ears.
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The first picture is of my grandmother Suriya, the next is her mother Halima and the third is her paternal grandmother Naseeban. Of course,the last picture is me!
 
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