“Quicktongue,” she said, testing her voice, and then louder—“Ramson Quicktongue. Is that your real name?” "I think being blackish was the perfect word because it described both the fact that I can be biracial and proud of my heritage on both sides," she says. "As well as accepting the fact that we live in a point in time in which a lot of my behaviors or the cultures I consume are an amalgamation."According to2013 data "Being someone that is half-black and half-Iranian and proud of both sides, it gave me a community of people that identify as blackish," Yara said. "Because so many times, if you are of any race, there is a certain feeling of this meter of like, ‘How black am I? How Iranian am I?’ and it's hard when you're both to feel as though you can coexist as both and be fully both." to the assembled legislators, "It is only when a woman attempts to exercise her rights in this House that we have this kind of intimidation."