What makes us who we are? Are we simply a sum of our experiences? Are we what society sees in us or do we get to define ourselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Whitman once said, we \u201ccontain multitudes\u201d, but often society marks us as one thing or another. We may spend a lifetime trying to break out of the narrow box in which society puts us. Other times, circumstances force us to reinvent ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mother of a gay son has transformed her views and is now helping other parents do the same. People living with HIV attempt to cope with heightened stigma when a criminal law is revived. The climate crisis is forcing a fisherwoman to question her 20-year career and whether she has a future. A country strives to balance its vital, immediate needs with visions of a greener future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are stories of people and societies working to define and redefine their identities, attempting to carve out a space for themselves in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":300,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[9,8,6],"class_list":["post-62","issues","type-issues","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brands","tag-music","tag-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/voyages.eurasia.undp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/voyages.eurasia.undp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/voyages.eurasia.undp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issues"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voyages.eurasia.undp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/voyages.eurasia.undp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voyages.eurasia.undp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voyages.eurasia.undp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}