{"id":42668,"date":"2015-09-11T20:45:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42668"},"modified":"2015-09-11T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:45:46","slug":"hapa-palooza-2015-celebrate-mixed-heritage-and-own-your-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42668","title":{"rendered":"Hapa-palooza 2015: Celebrate mixed heritage and own your identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hapa-palooza 2015: Celebrate mixed heritage and own your identity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Vancouver Observer<\/a>
\nVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
\n2015-09-06<\/p>\n

Jordan Yerman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mixed-race, outsider, or ‘half-breed’: you’re not alone at Hapa-palooza. Get in on Canada’s largest celebration of mixed heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n

T\u00f4i l\u00e0 ng\u01b0\u1eddi lai m\u1ef9<\/em> means \u201cI\u2019m an American half-breed\u201d. Author and publisher Brandy Li\u00ean Worrall wrote it in her journal while sitting at an outdoor cafe during her first trip to Vietnam<\/a>. She wrote in Vietnamese for the benefit of the locals who were reading over her shoulder. Worrall\u2019s Vietnamese mother laughed at first, and then asked why her daughter didn\u2019t just say she was Vietnamese. \u201cBecause, Mom,\u201d replied Worrall, \u201cI\u2019m not just Vietnamese. I\u2019m not just American. I\u2019m gonna recognize that I\u2019m ng\u01b0\u1eddi lai<\/em>, and I\u2019m going to own that word.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that country, where I have origins,\u201d says Worrall in a DTES<\/a> cafe, “[being mixed-race] is still that stigmatized.\u201d We\u2019re sitting with Anna Ling Kaye, editor of Ricepaper Magazine<\/a><\/em> and co-founder of Hapa-palooza<\/a>, which returns for its fifth year on September 16. Kaye says, \u201cIn Taiwan, my extended family is certainly nonplussed by me. They\u2019re complimentary: \u2018Oh, you don\u2019t need to perm your hair! You\u2019re so curvy!\u2019\u201d Contrasting that was an encounter with a Chinese woman in Vancouver who told her, \u201cYou look how I feel!\u201d The woman saw herself as presenting as Chinese, but feeling Canadian. \u201cWe don\u2019t feel Hapa-palooza is only for people of mixed heritage. It\u2019s for anyone who wants to talk about identity.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hapa-palooza 2015: Celebrate mixed heritage and own your identity Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-09-06 Jordan Yerman Mixed-race, outsider, or ‘half-breed’: you’re not alone at Hapa-palooza. Get in on Canada’s largest celebration of mixed heritage. T\u00f4i l\u00e0 ng\u01b0\u1eddi lai m\u1ef9 means \u201cI\u2019m an American half-breed\u201d. Author and publisher Brandy Li\u00ean Worrall wrote it in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,19,8],"tags":[15788,21028,2138,7501,15787,6790,15786],"class_list":["post-42668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-anna-ling-kaye","tag-brandy-lien-worrall","tag-british-columbia","tag-hapa-palooza","tag-jordan-yerman","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42668","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=42668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42669,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42668\/revisions\/42669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}