#mixedability

[eggbagelz]

Hey so whats up with this

[johnwicklover1999]

all the rap related shit on tumblr creating an uptick in people just being hella racist abt rap is driving me crazy. like oh my god listen to r&b you dumb bitch. if you don't listen to rap or hiphop or whatever bc its abt violence, gang shit, hoes, sex, whatever, then listen to r&b.

i would IMPLORE folks to listen to r&b, it is just as incredible as rap. a lot of r&b 'staples' (classics? ion know what word to use) have so much meaning.

the other day i was listening to "Waterfalls" by TLC (my fav TLC song <3) and my eyes actually widened as something finally clicked. the line, "His health is fading, and he doesn't know why / Three letters took him to his final resting place" is so goddamn profound.

black music is PROFOUND. it's full of so much meaning and soul that it's just crazy, and it means so much to a lot of people! it's good music!

just going off of r&b i'm familiar with, i'd say a lot of it is about relationships, admiration, advice, storytelling, sex and intimacy, and passion. blackness being at the core of all of those.

now, my whole life my dad has always listened to hiphop and r&b radios. for awhile now i've actually been trying to get into that music on my own bc these songs have always been like, a background track of my life. songs i loved but never knew the names of, or never really thought about the lyrics. even though these are songs i've known my whole damn life there's still so much that i can explore and appreciate within the genre. and it's crazy bc these folks can do the exact same thing and it ain't even cross their minds!!! just irritating 🙄

here's a link to spotify's 90s r&b playlist for my mutuals n shit who might see this. i'm most familiar w 90s r&b, so a lot of the songs i love n cherish dearly are in there ♥️

[decompose1]

stuff i associate with my gender in no particular order

angels (i am one)

cats (angels) (same thing)

cygnets

bilaterial gynandromorph animals

adam

wolves

furby i suppose

[stlaika]

Ur gonna keep seeing that pete wentz mixedness post so help me god

[anakrojak]

Hello and selamat datang sweethearts!

Above you will see a screenshot from the first ever episode of my radio show at Operator radio called, 'The Eye of the Storm'. I was accompanied by my rockin' friend Yara Jundi, who shared space with me to discuss mixedness in all its variations. You can still check out the audio on https://operator-radio.com/ if you search The Eye of the Storm - 01 w/ Anak Rojak & Yara Jundi.

We dived into her identity as a Syrian woman who grew up all her life in Dubai and then moved to the Netherlands. We spoke about modesty, religion, Arab culture, divisions, connections and so much else. It was a real pleasure to take a moment to give space to this oddness of finding ourselves in the grey space in the middle.

The next episode will be the 10th of January from 13-14pm with the yet-to-be-announced guest! So remember to check out the live stream for video and audio content.

I am so excited to be on this journey and cannot wait to see how it evolves and grows. Thank you for joining me :-)

From my heart to yours, Nina <3

[thephenotype]

[jack-o-daniels]

What gets me sad from seeing so much hate, discontent, and desinformation is that it shows me that, were they to obtain power and money, they would turn out just the same as those they hate.

[rqtoons]

mixed-hearted, -aligned or -coded

someone who isn't exactly mixed but instead is connected to it. example: someone who is arace because they are non human but still feels a connection to mixedness.

made by mod Goob!!

insipired by the transmixed flag!!

[girlonthemoon81]

RE: Mary in Sinners. While I understand your materialist analysis, I think something that’s relevant is that in the Jim Crow era the law identifies someone as black if they are 1/16 or more. So while I agree with not subscribing to the one drop rule and looking at things from a social perspective, she would still be considered legally black if people knew about her ancestry and that’s something that needs to be kept in mind. She is very white-passing and can therefore “hide” where people don’t know and she does but that doesn’t change the historical law of the time that would categorize her as black. She’s about as black when it comes to ancestry as Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson and he was white-passing as well. Basically I see what you’re getting at but there’s historical context as to why Mary not being considered as a white woman makes sense.

Mary is capable of using her whiteness whenever she pleases. It’s her shield but also her weakness and punishment. She’s the only white/non-Black woman in the movie who dated and had sexual relationships with a Black man. That was a red flag from the beginning. Honestly, it feels like Mary was written through the eyes of a stereotypical (black) man's own sexual desires. She was raised socially as a white woman by her white mother. Her father, I believe, passed(?) She only wants to be Black because she wants to be with Stack and not because of her desire to end racial discrimination and violence. Whether or not Mary could be read as Black by law, the movie never develops that into her character arc in a meaningful or respectful way. She is still filmed, costumed, and positioned like a white (wealthy) woman in Black-centered media. If Mary's character was supposed to be a story about a mixed-race woman navigating 1930s identity politics, then where’s that story? Where’s her relationship with her father? Her community? Her personal stakes in race, caste, or survival? Instead, her “mixedness” feels like a plot device to make her sexual relationship with Stack feel dangerous and edgy, but without giving her any of the emotional or historical weight that would make her a real character.

[eggbagelz]

Me: hey based off what hes told us abt his experiences and what he refers to himself as and how he says he feels alienated from every community he's part of it'd be better and more respectful to call pete wentz mixed than to decide what racial group he Belongs to for him

Americans who think the word mixed is a slur: into the pit with you

[pumpumdemsugah]

It's a shame because I liked Amber Rose. Haven't thought about her in years but she always seemed pleasant and wasn't spotlight hungry. Guess I was wrong about the last part

Another light skin women being a fucking idiot is that Mixed woman with a tiger tattoo on her face. She said black people ruined her life. Were Black people ruining your life when being light , mixed and pretty got you a career ? I still remember people calling her stupid when she got that tattoo on her face. Back then people were telling her she was being ridiculous but the attention and fawning drowned that out.

It's black people that ruined your life woman with a tattoo on your face? Hmmm lol You're not good at thinking babes. She said she had too much empathy. No you didn't, it was easier for you to get ahead in black spaces and it's obvious now she never saw herself as part of the community. She banked on male attention and realised how pointless that was. She banked on her mixedness and her beauty and she found out beauty isn't real power because you'll always be traded for a newer model so it's important to make sure you invested the resources you got access to properly. Sounds like she didn't

[johnwicklover1999]

oooo everyday i wake up and grit my stupid fucking teeth and brush my stupid curly hair and i must look myself in the face and i lament how i have come to worrying over doubting my grandpa because the cherokee are the largest tribe in the us and also famously known as "the tribe that pretendians claim to be" oooo i must acknowledge my being mixed to high hell and having zero cultural attachments to any of my lineages and i must worry if i will ever be, or if i am a 'real' cherokee or if i am nothing more than a cherokee princes pretendian and my grief, yearning, mourning, self-doubt, distrust, hatred, and very small moments of delight and joy so valuable i cling to them like lifelines, will always be for naught.

(heads up, i accidentally wrote a massive rant/vent under the read more, focused entirely on racial imposter syndrome and the like)

i experience the same thing being choctaw, but to a lesser degree.

it's just that the sheer magnitude of cherokee 'pretendians' makes me feel like no matter what, as an individual and in a community of any sort, i would be the pretendian in the room. the word pretendian has started to sound disgusting to me because of how long i spend fretting over the possibility that i am inherently a pretendian because of my mixedness and culture-less life. i want to reconnect, but do i have that right? will i ever have that right? am i a fool for asking any questions? should i know better?

i think a part of me hopes for this bizarre fantasy of someone of a culture/heritage of mine will for whatever reason have the authority to just tell me to quit and go home, and that i'm not a real whatever, so that at the very least my feelings will become irrational and i will stop having to try, because i have been given a definite answer that i do not belong

blood quantum creates weird fantasies i guess. it's like i'm just biding my time and waiting until the day(s) i can muster any kind of confidence or courage or whatever to do something big, and really make the effort, just for some full-blooded person to stand before me, push me back and tell me i'm not a real choctaw/cherokee.

and it's not like i really want that..? but it's such a reoccurring thought because that sense of imposter syndrome and the endless worry is always hounding me relentlessly, and has my whole life. and now there's more things to worry about and feel like an imposter of? i know i'm wasting time, energy, and opportunities because i'm so stuck in my head. so if i (or my anxieties) are right and i am a fake, a pretendian, then all of that time debating idiotic and plain mean "what if"s would lead me to a correct answer.

i guess i also fantasize about that so much because i'm deeply afraid of it. so terrified that i guess it starts to look like the better option, to have that fear come true and be final rather than spend my life fulfilling my dreams with the possibility of both denial and acceptance.

god idk, yesterday i had a really weird encounter with a teacher who was uncomfortably adamant that i am not native and class related stuff today just made that feeling worse so i've been sick with doubt, nerves/insecurity, and now grief.

(the weird encounter in question- there's a bit more context and whatnot, but this is pretty much it ⬇️)

dawg this shit is so fucked up

i have so much love for choctaw and cherokee people as wholes, and so many dreams and desires to give to the people, and to learn from them, and to find myself and find beauty in those two parts of myself through cultures i already find to be so, so beautiful. and yet i almost yearn to be denied validity in my ancestors just so i don't feel sick whenever the word "pretendian" is mentioned, just so all the fear stops and my mind will quit entertaining the ideas of entire peoples rejecting me just so i can be done with it all and let the hurt fester before eventually letting all my care, sentiment, and affections die so the intertwined yearning, mourning, hatred, fear, insecurity, and joy can cease, effectively severing the attachments i have developed to my cultures. that's kind of sick, right? under no circumstances do i want to live a life where the blood my differing ancestors gave me, full of life and blessings and heritage- beauty to take pride in, becomes meaningless to me. jesus fuck, that sounds awful!

[chesh-iire]

tumblr wants me to like taylor swift

i am so terribly sorry. but no. no amount of convincing will make me hop onto the Plain White People agenda even if all my mixedness cancels itself out

[shot-of-hopes-and-dreams]

Thinks your Z mix

I am Think — Z-Mixeding so hard rn bro

[metissagesanguemisto]

“Hand us over the mic” - SOPHIE SANDHIYA ARGENT - Lawyer & Human Rights ...

𝑴𝒆́𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐 personally don’t like doing interviews. We love having conversations with our guests, because we feel it’s the best way of understanding a complicated situation and seeing it from someone else's perspective. 

Conversations matter because they are a foundation of good reporting, they make us avoid sitting still on our own opinions and judgment, emphasize the point or angle of a story, represent an opinion, provide important facts and information, or offer a counter argument. 

We enjoy the process because we have stories to tell, wisdom to impart, confessions to make and we do it with purpose, genuine desire, drive, passion. Mostly with passion because without passion, it’s nothing but a chore. It's not just about asking the right questions. It's about genuine interest, flow, vibe, sincerity, concern, digging deeper, defining the unclear, attracting stories, avoiding awkwardness, and being conscious about all of that at the same time. 

We are observers. We take in every aspect of life and transpose it into a tale of the heart. We tap into the roots of life. There’s always something to say. Most people don’t see it, but it’s there. And that’s our role: to make people aware. See the unseen and draw it out into the light. Some see blue skies, while we see eternity. Life is a story made up of moments. There’s always a story to tell. 

This is why we try to bring to you exceptional conversations, with reciprocal genuine interest in our topics, incredibly informative perspectives that most people haven't thought of or seen before and to give you consistency from one chat to another without sounding like a broken record when you have a chance to listen to the conversation archives all in one day. 

This is why we created 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒙𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕 - 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝑰𝑪, our new chat dedicated to providing inspiration to people working on the front lines of the multicultural world, whose voices are underrepresented. We strongly believe that amplifying voices benefits everyone, including the underrepresented ones. 

Today, 𝑴𝒆́𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐, Hands over the mic to 𝑺𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒉𝒊𝒚𝒂 𝑨𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕, a Mixed Indian-British and French lawyer and human rights advocate who promotes and safeguards mixed heritage rights. We spent an amazing time together in a deep conversation about Mixedness, rolling it round on a 360 degrees spinoff. 

Thank you Sophie for helping me convey the message that only by acknowledging the multiplicity of our identity we can begin to simultaneously own our uniqueness and fully inhabit our ties to our fellow human beings. And thank you for giving all of us the opportunity to reconsider our “right place” in this Society which tends to embrace only the law of duality.

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