My identity

My ancestry I mostly Polish and German, and then smaller parts of Finnish, Swedish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Norwegian, and Austrian. My mother was born and raised in Illinois, and her family has been around since the pilgrims. My father was born in Germany but immigrated to New York when he was a little toddler. While my immediate family is Christian Scientists and also some close relatives, my father’s side of the family has catholic roots and my mother’s side has Christian, Jewish, and Muslim affiliations.

I guess I celebrate Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas, along with birthdays. But I’m more into Thanksgiving than any, because I don’t identify with any of the Christian-like holidays and traditions. I find them meaningless. Thanksgiving is a time to express gratitude for things. I mostly identify with being Polish and German, being an active Christian Scientist and my holiday that I feel is important is Thanksgiving. I haven’t been harassed or victimized about anything. All I can think of is my religion because as I grew up people questioned and assumed different things about my religion, most being wrong and I couldn’t communicate it correctly to so many people. I’m close with people of many different religions and I feel that is the barrier that I cross, and am still reaching across.

I want to present how I technically celebrate all these religious holidays, but I myself see little meaning or liking in the traditions that follow the holidays. I then want to show what people think and than what I really feel about my religion, Christian Science. And finally, I want to touch base on what I may appear as is an average everything white heterosexual female, but there is so much more. I don’t feel white, and I don’t feel average, and sometimes I don’t even feel heterosexual. I don’t want to label myself permanently as any of these things.

I'm a bit confused on the format or how many posters/pages to design. I don't exactly see what I want to go for yet. I feel pretty normal with not so much tension.