{"id":34451,"date":"2013-10-24T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34451"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:31:40","slug":"the-fluidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34451","title":{"rendered":"The Fluidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/neitherboth.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/19\/the-fluidity\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fluidity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neitherboth.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Neither\/Both: my mixed-race experience<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lola Osunkoya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I went to the skating rink on a night I don\u2019t usually go, and found myself to be the only female of color there.\u00a0 It was unusual to me because on my regularly night, it\u2019s a predominantly Black crowd.\u00a0 In this stage of my identity development, I\u2019m very conscious of my racial surroundings when I am one of the few.<\/p>\n<p>Today I identify primarily as Mixed, but also as Black.\u00a0 That has changed over the years as Mixed identities are inherently fluid\u2026 if we choose that route \u2013 static is another choice.\u00a0 I have been militantly Mixed, not White enough, begrudgingly Black.\u00a0 All of them had a certain frantic energy on them because I felt like they were dependent on outside validation.\u00a0 Today I feel more at peace with my chosen identity.\u00a0 Will it remain this way now that it feels peaceful?\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 But the fluidity could push me in a new direction sometime in the future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/neitherboth.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/19\/the-fluidity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fluidity Neither\/Both: my mixed-race experience 2013-10-19 Lola Osunkoya I went to the skating rink on a night I don\u2019t usually go, and found myself to be the only female of color there.\u00a0 It was unusual to me because on my regularly night, it\u2019s a predominantly Black crowd.\u00a0 In this stage of my identity development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[16229,16228],"class_list":["post-34451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-lola-osunkoya","tag-neitherboth-my-mixed-race-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34451","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=34451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}