{"id":593,"date":"2018-08-28T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uahost.uantwerpen.be\/sigwrit\/?p=593"},"modified":"2018-09-03T02:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T00:50:33","slug":"the-joy-and-burden-of-multilingualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/the-joy-and-burden-of-multilingualism\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy and burden of multilingualism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMultilingualism was a burden\u201d, muslim master student and opinion maker <strong>Yasmien Naciri<\/strong> testified. She constantly felt trapped on a bridge trying to connect different worlds. In high school she preferred reading over writing, because in reading there was no interaction needed. But then she took part in a poetry contest and discovered the joy of writing. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She also found out that the way she wrote, was not yet present in the media. The Belgian newspaper De Morgen asked her to write a biweekly opinion piece. In the beginning she was very happy with that opportunity, but soon she felt disappointed that she was positioned as a muslima with a headscarf. &#8220;In the reactions to my pieces I was mainly reduced to what is on my head, instead of what is in my head. People even dared to ask me if I was able to write my own columns. That hurt me and made me insecure, but it didn&#8217;t stop me from writing my own book \u2018We nemen het heft in handen\u2019. My parents always told me: if you don&#8217;t get a seat at the table, bring your own folding chair. I have a voice that is worthy of being heard. Above all, I have realized how important it is to express and write your thoughts.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Katrien Verreyken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMultilingualism was a burden\u201d, muslim master student and opinion maker Yasmien Naciri testified. She constantly felt trapped on a bridge trying to connect different worlds. In high school she preferred reading over writing, because in reading there was no interaction needed. But then she took part in a poetry contest and discovered the joy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-signite","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/sigwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}