By Josepha Kûitse Kunak Thomsen

When Donald Trump first talked about buying Greenland last year, it affected me more than I expected.

What followed wasn’t just political debate. It was attention, jokes, and comments that felt very personal when you’re Greenlandic.

I remember watching a Danish satire show that made fun of a Greenlandic documentary and the Inuk woman featured in it (it was shown a month after Trump’s remarks). Around the same time, I was reading comment sections on Facebook and responses to my own posts on Instagram. At one point, I had to crawl into bed and cry. It hurt deeply to see so many people in Denmark speak so harshly about my home and about Greenlandic people.

This didn’t........

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