Integral

John had no idea what to think when he looked down and saw his hand. Instead of the dark skin he usually saw, his hand was pale. And not only that, it was also thinner and much more...dainty? He quickly shoved his hands into his pockets as his mind raced to understand the situation. For some reason, he was now inside the body of a white woman! At first, he smiled. He thought about the various forms of systematic racism he had experienced in his life, and he couldn’t help but think that was all gone now. He thought about it a little more, and his smile began to fade. Then again, being a black man had been such an integral part of his identity, it was hard to imagine how he was going to adapt to this. And not only that, he knew women faced disadvantages of their own. He couldn’t wonder how those would affect him now. Of course, he still hadn’t even begun to think of how or why he was suddenly in a new body...