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I don’t read contemporary YA often, only when the story sounds really appealing to me. Some of my favourite reads *are* contemporary, however. Like Something Real by Heather Demetrios, If I Stay by Gayle Forman, A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody, and I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson. When I read the premise to In Search of Us by Ava Dellaira, I knew I had to get myself this book. A mother…
#LesbianVisibilityWeek is coming to an end so here are some #mixed #lesbian public figures.
#JasminSavoyBrown (Actress) - “I never #cameout. I just started posting pics of my girl & I a few years ago. I knew when I did it would hinder opportunities & it was scary, but I thought, “Do I want to work with those jerks anyway?” No! So if I miss out on that job, that’s ok. Ill get better ones. I’ll never know who’s passed over me & discarded me for being me but that’s ok. I’m in great company. Everything is double-edged, positive & negative, but me being comfortable in my skin as a #biracial #queer woman, being happy, that’s most important. I know being true to myself inspired others. I’d prefer that over a stupid job.“
#AudreLorde (ICON - writer, feminist, librarian & activist) - "Frances & I began living together when the kids were 6 & 7; so we raised them together & we decided very early on that we had to arm them the same way we armed ourselves. We lived in Staten Island which is probably the most regressive borough of New York City. It was green, had a lot of space which are things we needed. But we decided that the position of strength was one of knowledge & so we spoke to them about what they could expect. About the fact that we were #lesbians, what it meant & what they could expect. We spoke about what it meant to be an #interracial family too.”
#Kehlani (Singer, Songwriter, Dancer) - "I finally know I’m a lesbian.” She knows she carries “privilege” as someone who passes as “cisgender presenting”in the industry. "It’s tougher for #trans artists. Black #gay men. Black masculine gay women. I’m lucky. I don’t walk down the street & people go, ‘She’s into women’ because of the way I present. That’s privilege. There are many artists who were at the forefront but weren’t able to make the strides that I have, being 100% myself, because of the way they present, the biases & phobias of society. All the beautiful Black trans women in my life that I’m able to witness, not only living their true power, but be courageous, fearless, fiercely educate everybody around them. They do it so effortlessly, it comes off easy to people who don’t know them. But I know its hard.” https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc_JuyKOD7W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#throw post from @art_teacher_life: “I just wanted to let you know that I have been learning a lot about some of the issues I’ve been experiencing my whole life as #beingbiracial. I am originally from a small town in where there were no other #biracialfamilies. I struggled a lot with identity as I was not #White enough and not Asian enough. When I began travelling was the only time I felt like myself. Because everywhere I went people said I belonged to them and I fit in every where I went. I now understand that I have been experiencing Racial Imposter Syndrome. I think many #biracialpeople feel the same.
What is #RacialimposterSyndrome? I am a #biracial child, born in Australia. My mother is #French and my father is #Chinese #Malayian. Like many #biracialchildren I was a minority, the smallest minority. The only other children I knew until I was 13 who were also biracial were my siblings, and when I did finally meet another biracial, we clung together because we were the only two in a school of 1000 kids. There was a small group of #Asian kids at my school and every now and then we would hang out with them, but were never ‘Asian’ enough. The 'white’ kids at our school bullied me with racist slurs I didnt understand and forced me to hate looking 'ethnic.’
Racial Imposter Syndrome is a condition when biracial people feel as though they do not belong to their parents or grandparents race due to being #mixedrace. Biracial individuals, including myself, often experience severe #mentalhealth issues due to a lack of belonging and isolation. As our minority is becoming the fastest growing minority this is an issue that needs to be addressed. #Biracialpeople are a #POC minority who deserve to belong.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out my How To: Be Featured Story for a Shoutout! ☝️ Following me is required! Want to be featured faster?? Follow and dm my personal page @donnisbutterfly and LET ME KNOW YOU SUBMITTED HERE! #mixedgirlproblems #mixedgirl #tbt https://www.instagram.com/p/CcnuxRFuvw7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
i’ve made quite a few posts on #blackfishing and there’s always those handful of people who don’t think it’s a big deal or say i should mind my business when it comes to how people dress, etc. i wish it wasn’t a big deal, i wish i could ignore it but a lot of these people make it pretty hard. blackfishing has repercussions that most don’t even realize are harmful. this comment is one of them. have you ever felt that you had to overcompensate? have you ever felt that you couldn’t wear a hairstyle or clothing because you were afraid of what people would say?
#mixedpeople, especially #mixedwomen, are forced to water ourselves down in so many ways. we can’t be ourselves, our authentic selves, talk about it or even celebrate it.
we’re accused of blackfishing AND starting the “trend”. @nicoleocran said it best in a article about blackfishing and #mixedfishing in @metro.co.uk: “Blackfishing in particular fuels the stereotype that mixed people are actively trying to deceive people. It perpetuates the “pick me” stereotype – when it is white people who are afforded the opportunity to take on and off this cosplay as they so choose. This is the mixed person’s reality. We just want the opportunity to discuss the fluidity of identity without being mocked, ridiculed or excluded, but music videos like #JesyNelson’s or celebrities making billions of dollars in the beauty industry like #KylieJenner, make it easy entertainment fodder.”
What are your thoughts on this? And please please please be kind to each other in the comments! #mixedgirlproblems
The fact that the Crown Act even needs to exist is beyond me. The fact that only 14 out of 50 states have passed the Crown Act is not mathing for me. #TheCrownAct promises to abolish #hairdiscrimination, which means you can’t deem someone unprofessional until they cut off their locks so they can be hired, athletes can compete with beads in their hair or they’ll be disqualified, send someone home to change their hairstyle or pull someone aside and say “maybe straighten your hair next time.” its giving slavery, which is how hair discrimination started.
have you experienced hair discrimination? in corporate or on the court? where? let’s name names. comment below
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It is a crown to be worn with pride.
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This weekend is Loving Day, a celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing bans against interracial marriage. Our readers have been sharing their stories of how interracial marriage has affected their lives.
Although it’s never been a factor for us, the fact that we are different races definitely plays a role in our life. More than anything it has expanded our perspectives on life, love, and the American dream.
It’s beautiful! To think how far our country has come leaves us with nothing but optimism for where the country is headed!
– Shelby Erickson, Long Beach
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This weekend is Loving Day, a celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing bans against interracial marriage. Our readers have been sharing their stories of how interracial marriage has affected their lives.
Being multiracial today means that you don’t have a racial group to identify with. For me, it means that I don’t blend in with my white friends and family, but I also stand out amongst minority groups. It means I’m an outsider because, “[I] don’t really know what it’s like."
On the other hand, being mixed race is fantastic! My parents raised me with all of my racial/cultural traditions. In one month, I could go to a Swiss Days festival and then dance at a Buddhist temple for Obon. I took both ballet and hula classes; I grew up with the biggest palette; and a pidgin English that included, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Japanese, Tagalog, Hawaiian, and Lao.
While I don’t fit in completely with any one group, I have some "claim” to so many beautiful and unique traditions.
– Sarah Brown Rupper
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This weekend is Loving Day, a celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing bans against interracial marriage. Our readers have been sharing their stories of how interracial marriage has affected their lives.
Usually people ask me if my family is OK with my fiancé being black, or my parents ask if his family is OK with me being Mexican. I cannot understand why it is such a problem, but I know generations before me were different.
The fact that me and my fiancé can blend both our families and our cultures makes me feel so happy, because I know that our future kids will be a part of something great. They will be part of two amazing worlds, two amazing cultures and two amazing heritages. Thank you to the Lovings for standing up for love.
– Diana Ortega, Van Nuys
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This weekend is Loving Day, a celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing bans against interracial marriage. Our readers have been sharing their stories of how interracial marriage has affected their lives.
I have always known that I was mixed. I can recall sitting in a circle with my elementary school friends saying what our races were and I clearly stated I was half white and half Mexican. I also had a special affinity for the mixed-species Mr. Spock. It didn’t mean that much to me until I entered college at UC Berkeley and became a student activist. After spending several years doing multiracial student organizing I returned home and became active in the multiracial movement through Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC). For years I participated in the struggle to change the Census to allow people to mark one or more races: organizing conferences, workshops, letter writing, etc. We were successful in that mission but imagine my surprise when I found they didn’t allow mixed Latino identity. In spite of all my efforts to enable millions to acknowledge all their identities that option was still denied me and likely millions more people.
When it came time to start my own family I chose a Latina friend whom I’ve known since high school. I wouldn’t say I explicitly set out to find a Latina, but rather, when looking for someone with which to spend one’s life, you tend to settle on someone with whom you have something in common. We had a daughter shortly after we married but then five years later chose to adopt a child from LA County. When we heard our son’s story and saw him as a newborn we couldn’t say no. When we made our decision at the time it really didn’t matter much to us what his race was. It wasn’t until we began introducing him to friends and family that we realized the significance of our transracial adoption.
Some like to believe that love is all you need to raise a child. But how do we show our love for our kids? We do what all parents do, we try to prepare them for life on their own. We live in a racist world, and our children, as people of color, will be subject to that racism at some point in their life. In our son’s case it happened before he was even one year old. So many people were curious about his race and one went so far as to comment how “you can’t even tell he’s black.” Why should it matter if you could tell he was mixed black unless you believed for some reason that was shameful? Being multiracial he was very fair skinned to start but has since darkened up somewhat. Today we don’t go out of our way to teach our kids about racial injustice, but we do try to instill in them a sense of pride in all of who they are. They will learn soon enough all the many ways racial discrimination can affect them. For now, we want them to know how their race makes them special.
This weekend is Loving Day, a celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing bans against interracial marriage. Our readers have been sharing their stories of how interracial marriage has affected their lives.
My daughter, Marika, was born May 22, 2015.
In the haze of post-delivery joy, my wife, Karen, and I had yet to run down a set of life lessons to impart to our new family member. We were still waiting for a moment to get a good look at her so we could settle on which of three names we would bestow.
Now, we’ve survived our first sleepy year of being parents and withstood a series of honest discussions between us on raising a child with an African American dad and Filipino mom.
Karen, for example, wanted Marika to learn to speak English and Tagalog like she did. My wife would occasionally point to things and describe them in both languages.
I would want Marika to have an appreciation for black history.
We came to a pretty simple conclusion: Our goal would be to help her develop a strong sense of self.
We believe it’s the best way for her to gird herself from people who can’t see past stereotypes. She in turn can educate and inform people about who she is.
Sure, much of what we’ll say to her in the years to come will probably touch on an assortment of historical and societal issues and how that affects her. But we believed our best move was to make sure she gets a good dose of exposure to our families on both sides and to our cultures.
In other words, we hope little Marika grows up to be as familiar with pancit as she is with black-eyed peas.
We know there’s lots of ground to cover. I mean, she’s just getting a handle on the whole “mommy” and “daddy” thing.
And that’s a big deal because I believe how she sees us is how she’ll view herself.
For right now, it’s enough that she knows that mommy loves daddy and daddy loves mommy and they both love her.
This weekend is Loving Day, a celebration of the Supreme Court decision outlawing bans against interracial marriage. Our readers have been sharing their stories of how interracial marriage has affected their lives.
“My parents were married shortly after Loving vs. Virginia. This image of my Black dad and Mexican mom joining hands with us, their biracial children, in a flexible link secured us during waves of prejudice, stereotypes and misunderstandings from the outside world with the ability to pull us in as needed for support. A search for my identity, illustrated by our hands forming an abstract heart, is based on the love and confidence we had for each other to find our own way individually and as a unit.“
– Sonia Smith-Kang
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