At first glance, Rashad Nimr doesn’t stick out in a crowd. He’s light-skinned, well-dressed and walks with an air of confidence. But when he starts to speak, you’ll notice a strong stutter. This doesn’t slow him down one bit.<\/p>\n
“In this day and age, everyone has a voice, even if they don’t know it,” Nimr, who has lived with a stutter since age 4, says at the beginning of a TEDx talk he gave a few years ago.<\/p>\n
Nimr is a gay, half-Palestinian who would spend his spare time in high school doing LGBTQ advocacy organizing and volunteering at Palestinian and Iraqi refugee camps. Today, he’s still vocal about human rights issues and radical self-acceptance.<\/p>\n
“Possibly because of my own struggle for voice, I have taken a liking to spoken word poetry (…) What am I supposed to do with identities that don’t mix?”<\/p>\n
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