{"id":39463,"date":"2015-01-15T21:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39463"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:31:24","slug":"you-can-be-both-and-not-in-the-way-you-might-be-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39463","title":{"rendered":"You Can be Both! (And Not In the Way You Might be Thinking)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixed-me.ca\/you_can_be_both\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>You Can be Both! (And Not In the Way You Might be Thinking)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixed-me.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed In Canada<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mixed_me_ca\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rema Tavares<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmariaroot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Maria P. Root\u2019s<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmariaroot.com\/doc\/BillOfRights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People<\/a>\u201d has greatly influenced how many mixed-race folks identify today. One of the things I learned from the Bill was that I had the right to identify however I wanted to, regardless of how my family, friends, society etc thought I should identify. On top of that, I had the right to change my identity as many times as I felt necessary throughout my life. To that point, I have identified as a lot of things during my 30 years on this earth. As a young child who understood nothing about race, growing up completely surrounded by white folks, I thought I was a mutated white person (*cringe*). Once I realized that I was in fact Black at around 8 years old, I was incredibly happy and immediately began to identify that way (or as \u201cJamaican\u201d again in my limited understanding of race, conflating race &amp; nationality). Named after my grandmother whom I loved dearly, I was so happy to find out that I was Black, just like her. Despite having a white mother, for years I avoided a mixed-race identity, because for the longest time it didn\u2019t feel right. I didn\u2019t feel mixed. I felt Black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/mixed-me.ca\/you_can_be_both\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Can be Both! (And Not In the Way You Might be Thinking) Mixed In Canada 2015-01-14 Rema Tavares Dr. Maria P. Root\u2019s \u201cBill of Rights for Racially Mixed People\u201d has greatly influenced how many mixed-race folks identify today. One of the things I learned from the Bill was that I had the right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8],"tags":[14254,13139],"class_list":["post-39463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-mixed-in-canada","tag-rema-tavares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39463","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=39463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}