{"id":48668,"date":"2016-08-15T20:28:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48668"},"modified":"2016-08-15T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:28:45","slug":"between-places-and-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48668","title":{"rendered":"Between places and spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgilldaily.com\/2016\/03\/between-places-and-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Between places and spaces<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgilldaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The McGill Daily<\/a><br \/>\nMontreal, Quebec, Canada<br \/>\n2016-03-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.linkedin.com\/in\/francescahumi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Francesca Humi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Articulating my identity as a mixed-race woman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you?\u201d I am a woman of colour. No, I\u2019m a mixed-race woman of colour. My identity is constantly gendered and racialized. While I have come to be very comfortable with my gender identity as a cis woman, my racial identity is different.<\/p>\n<p>My identity as a mixed-race person is constantly changing, felt with different strength according to time and place.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris\" target=\"_blank\">Paris<\/a>, I knew I was not white and not French. Both of these facts were made very clear to me in social interactions, starting at school, where my non-French, non-white sounding name was frequently mispronounced in French mouths and misspelt in French writing. It was picked apart and made fun of, from <em>maternelle<\/em> (kindergarten) to<em> lyc\u00e9e<\/em> (high school). It was other and alien, just as I was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgilldaily.com\/2016\/03\/between-places-and-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between places and spaces The McGill Daily Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2016-03-21 Francesca Humi Articulating my identity as a mixed-race woman \u201cWho are you?\u201d I am a woman of colour. No, I\u2019m a mixed-race woman of colour. My identity is constantly gendered and racialized. While I have come to be very comfortable with my gender identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,19,8],"tags":[24748,24747,24746],"class_list":["post-48668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-francesca-humi","tag-mcgill-daily","tag-the-mcgill-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668","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=48668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48669,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48668\/revisions\/48669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}