{"id":45111,"date":"2016-01-16T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45111"},"modified":"2016-01-16T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T15:37:56","slug":"a-mixed-race-feminist-blog-interview-with-isabel-adonis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45111","title":{"rendered":"A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Isabel Adonis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedracefeministblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/15\/a-mixed-race-feminist-blog-interview-with-isabel-adonis\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Isabel Adonis<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedracefeministblog.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">A Mixed Race Feminist Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenixie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nicola Codner<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Art-of-Isabel-Adonis-254305636996\/\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel Adonis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a private tutor, artist and writer and I live in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a>. My mother was a white Welsh woman and my father was a black man from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgetown,_Guyana\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown <\/a>in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyana\" target=\"_blank\">Guyana<\/a>. He was quite a well-known writer and artist. I was born and brought up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a> until I was six when my father began working in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khartoum\" target=\"_blank\">Khartoum<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudan\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan<\/a>. I lived and went to school there until I was nine when my parents bought a house in Wales. For the next nine years I lived and went to school in Wales and travelled to Africa in the holidays. After five years in the Sudan my father worked in different universities in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigeria\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria<\/a>. My parents split up when I was seventeen and my father returned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean<\/a>. My mother did not remarry. In my twenties I trained as a teacher but because of an incident at the school, which I think was race related I decided I would never teach. I have four grown up children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you remember when you first came to understand that you are mixed race?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, around the time that ethnic monitoring was introduced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a> in the early nineties. I had no notion of being mixed race prior to that. I was not brought up to call myself anything. However I do not call myself mixed race now. I leave it to others to do that kind of thing. I resist being categorised in this way, since it is problematic. Identification functions by inclusion and therefore exclusion. I\u2019m not happy with that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/mixedracefeministblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/15\/a-mixed-race-feminist-blog-interview-with-isabel-adonis\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Isabel Adonis A Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-15 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom About Isabel Adonis I\u2019m a private tutor, artist and writer and I live in Wales. My mother was a white Welsh woman and my father was a black man from Georgetown in Guyana. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,13743,8,10],"tags":[22624,7731,21853,191],"class_list":["post-45111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-a-mixed-race-feminist-blog","tag-isabel-adonis","tag-nicola-codner","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45111","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=45111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45112,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45111\/revisions\/45112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}