{"id":34429,"date":"2013-10-23T02:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34429"},"modified":"2015-05-12T20:46:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:46:21","slug":"coming-out-as-biracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34429","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out as Biracial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/human-parts\/c25d6ae8f2af\" target=\"_blank\">Coming Out as Biracial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/human-parts\" target=\"_blank\">Human Parts<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-21<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@omgstephlol\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Georgopulos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, I not-so-subtly asserted myself as biracial while having dinner with a new coworker. \u201cI\u2019m a Capricorn,\u201d she\u2019d said. \u201cYeah\u2026my mom\u2019s black,\u201d I responded (not verbatim, but the exchange was similar). Whoa. What? Immediately after I injected that part of my identity into the conversation, I had a Come-to-Jesus moment. What was I doing? Did I always do this when I met new people?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, if you\u2019re wondering, is yes. (Although the timing and context are usually a bit more appropriate.) I\u2019ve been coming out this way since I was a teenager. First, my friends would do it for me, whenever one of our peers said something racist in front of me (which was often). \u201cDude. Steph\u2019s mom is black!\u201d The requisite retort was always, \u201cOh, sorry Steph. Are you half-offended?\u201d (No, but I am wishing tired ass jokes qualified as hate crimes.)<\/p>\n<p>Here it is: My mother is black. My dad is white. Two of my siblings look like my mom, and two of us look like my dad. Of the two who favor my dad, only one is biracial\u200a\u2014\u200athat\u2019d be me, the pigmentally challenged <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a> of our troupe. Are you confused yet? Good. Welcome to what it\u2019s like to be biracial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;That\u2019s not to say I understand the black experience. For starters, I have white privilege. Olive skin with curly hair, fine and versatile. Police don\u2019t see me. No one follows me around stores (but they\u2019re confused as hell when I come in to shop with my mother and sister). No one assumes I\u2019m uneducated or that my father left me. No one calls me her token black friend or asks why I talk so white (though I can imagine my mother, sister, and brother have heard that one a bit)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/human-parts\/c25d6ae8f2af\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming Out as Biracial Human Parts 2013-10-21 Stephanie Georgopulos A few months ago, I not-so-subtly asserted myself as biracial while having dinner with a new coworker. \u201cI\u2019m a Capricorn,\u201d she\u2019d said. \u201cYeah\u2026my mom\u2019s black,\u201d I responded (not verbatim, but the exchange was similar). Whoa. What? Immediately after I injected that part of my identity into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8],"tags":[16209,16210],"class_list":["post-34429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","tag-human-parts","tag-stephanie-georgopulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}