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Ode To A Heritage Journey, Of Being And Becoming
“What word encompasses the feeling of being somewhere you have never been, but you have always known?”
I Have Come to Replace Placelessness with Boundlessness
“Belonging is something I have always struggled with as a multiracial person. Over time I have come to see the world, and how the world sees me, as a continuum, constantly growing.”
What Mixed Race Meditation Has Meant to Us
Personal reflections from the MRMG’s Winter 2021 Retreat Facilitators
How Will You Know?
“How will you know who you are when all the signs that point you in one direction are empty? Will someone stop asking where you are going, and from where you came? Will you know then what to say? How will you stop wondering what people see when you cannot even see yourself? Will you stare in the mirror one day and realize your reflection is reversed?”
A Reflection on Anti-Asian Violence
“As a half-white, half-Asian daughter of immigrants, I am familiar with these limits. My mixed racial ethnicity has often left me without words to describe my contradictory existence. My parents’ conservative politics leaves me unsure where to place myself within a progressive party that is meant to support family stories like our own. I am unable to comfortably locate myself and my family in the mainstream narratives about immigrant communities and race.”
The Elephant, The Chameleon, and The Rabbit Hole
“The experience of being racially categorized is not a heavy duvet I can choose to fling off before stepping into the rest of my day, carefree and breezy. The boxes aren’t just comforting; they are part of a white supremacist power structure. My race leads me into conversations with the perception of difference and the significance we give it.”