Identitti

Professor Saraswati, Professor of Postcolonial Studies in Düsseldorf and at the forefront of identity politics debates, who presents herself as a racialized person, turns out to be a white woman whose birth certificate is listed as Sarah Vera Thielmann. Her student and blogger Nivedita Anand writes on her website and on social networks under the pseudonyms Identitti or Wonderwoman Mestiza, and she is fed up with being asked where she is from. Born in Germany to an Indian father, Nivedita admires her teacher and is disappointed and furious, but what is identity really? As Saraswati receives threats online and protesters demand that she be fired, Nivedita interrogates her: is our identity simply our personality, or is it more defined by our gender or skin color? Is it possible to get rid of whiteness? What does sex have to do with all this?