‘Where are you really from?’: This paediatrician reflects on the intersection of being brown, female and a doctor
In her memoir Dr Sarah Arachchi describes the challenges of undertaking a medical career as a woman of colour.
Dr Sarah Arachchi says from the day she was born, she has been identified by the colour of her skin, “branding my origins like a postage mark on an international envelope: Sri Lanka”.
She and her family left that first island home when she was five, settling in Melbourne, where she perfected an Aussie accent and struggled to work out where she fitted in.
