{"id":28744,"date":"2013-02-13T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T23:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28744"},"modified":"2013-02-13T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T23:58:40","slug":"%e2%80%9cfaces-in-between%e2%80%9d-a-3mw-collective-exhibition-reveiw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28744","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFaces In Between\u201d: A 3MW Collective Exhibition [Reveiw]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jennydonkey.com\/2013\/02\/12\/faces-in-between-a-3mw-collective-exhibition\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFaces In Between\u201d: A 3MW Collective Exhibition [Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jennydonkey.com\/about-jenny-donkey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenney Donkey<\/a><br \/>\n2013-02-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jennydonkey.com\/about-jenny-donkey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer McKinley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At an event, a party, a gathering or any place where I meet new people, I am invariably asked the Question: Where are you from?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cToronto,\u201d I answer. This is not the response they are looking for and I know it.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cNo, but where is your family from?\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cMy parents were born in Toronto and so were my grandparents. All about ten minutes away from where I currently live actually.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTheir frustration mounts.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cNo, but what\u2019s your background? This is Canada. Everybody comes from somewhere.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI respond differently each time I\u2019m asked. Sometimes I give the pr\u00e9cis answer, sometimes I make them guess and sometimes I flat out refuse to answer.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen people are not satisfied when I say I\u2019m Canadian, I find myself scrambling to answer the question in terms of what will make my observer comfortable. I cling to a mixed identity that is ancestrally correct (though incomplete due to family secrets) but doesn\u2019t quite fit with how I see myself.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>I identify as Canadian.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMy background is Irish, Italian, English, Black, possibly Scottish and possibly more.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn many ways, it is Toronto, the city of my ancestors, that informs my history and identity rather than some distant country that a person I never met came from.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nYet, the question persists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Because I am so often questioned and analyzed, I was naturally drawn to <a href=\"http:\/\/3mwcollective.org\/galleries\/exhibits\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFaces In Between\u201d<\/a>, an art exhibition by <a href=\"http:\/\/3mwcollective.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">3MW Collective<\/a> showing at <a href=\"http:\/\/regentparkarts.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniels Spectrum<\/a> in the Artscape Lounge. <a href=\"http:\/\/3mwcollective.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">3MW Collective<\/a> seeks to create a progressive discussion about mixed race identity. 3MW is comprised of three mixed-race identified artists <a href=\"http:\/\/mixed-me.ca\/?page_id=179\" target=\"_blank\">Rema Tavares<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/ilenesova.ca\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Ilene Sova<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanclarke.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Clarke<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydonkey.com\/2013\/02\/12\/faces-in-between-a-3mw-collective-exhibition\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFaces In Between\u201d: A 3MW Collective Exhibition [Review] Jenney Donkey 2013-02-12 Jennifer McKinley At an event, a party, a gathering or any place where I meet new people, I am invariably asked the Question: Where are you from? \u00a0 \u201cToronto,\u201d I answer. This is not the response they are looking for and I know it. 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