{"id":41125,"date":"2015-05-14T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41125"},"modified":"2015-05-20T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:33:16","slug":"i-think-that-its-important-for-me-to-identify-strongly-as-both-because-its-quite-evident-that-im-not-particularly-one-or-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41125","title":{"rendered":"I think that it\u2019s important for me to identify strongly as both because it\u2019s quite evident that I\u2019m not particularly one or the other."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI identify as both [black (Australian Aboriginal) and white]. So you know and I\u2019ve had no secret of who I am and what my background is. I think that it\u2019s important for me to identify strongly as both because it\u2019s quite evident that I\u2019m not particularly one or the other. You know, I\u2019m one of those people who <em>looks<\/em> mixed-race. So you\u2019re going to look at me and immediately say, \u2018what are you?\u2019 And so just being able to relate and identify strongly with both of my cultural backgrounds is something that&#8217;s really important for me.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiraleadargin\" target=\"_blank\">Kira Lea Dargin<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kim Chakanetsa, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41108\" target=\"_blank\">Being \u2018Mixed Race&#8217;: Kira Lea Dargin and Annina Chirade<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Conversation on BBC World Service<\/em>, May 11, 2015. (00:14:20-00:14:38). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02qm960\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02qm960<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI identify as both [black (Australian Aboriginal) and white]. So you know and I\u2019ve had no secret of who I am and what my background is. I think that it\u2019s important for me to identify strongly as both because it\u2019s quite evident that I\u2019m not particularly one or the other. You know, I\u2019m one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20072,20075,20073,5628],"class_list":["post-41125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-kim-chakanetsa","tag-kira-lea-dargin","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125","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=41125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}