Rachel Dolezal still identifies as a black woman despite, you know, being white. In a new interview with Vanity Fair (can you believe this lady made it into Vanity Fair ?), she says that while she knows she isn’t biologically African-American, her assumed blackness isn’t anything she can stop. “It’s not a costume,” she says. “I don’t know spiritually and metaphysically how this goes, but I do know that from my earliest memories I have awareness and connection with the black experience, and that’s never left me. It’s not something that I can put on and take off anymore. Like I said, I’ve had my years of confusion and wondering who I really [was] and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I’m not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be—but I’m not.” She continued, “It’s taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I’ve done a lot of research and a lot of studying,” she says. “I could have a long conversation, an academic con