{"id":48959,"date":"2016-09-04T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48959"},"modified":"2017-01-27T02:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T02:43:24","slug":"five-queers-of-color-on-what-connects-us-to-our-complicated-or-mixed-race-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48959","title":{"rendered":"Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\/five-queers-of-color-on-what-connects-us-to-our-complicated-or-mixed-race-identities-269414\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\" target=\"_blank\">Autostraddle<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hannahhodson_\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hannah Hodson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a sense of community that comes with being a person of color, but for some of us, settling into that community isn\u2019t always comfortable. Because we don\u2019t get a membership card along with our birth certificate, finding our identity comes with the burden of having to \u201cprove\u201d yourself. Whether you\u2019re bi-racial, adopted, or otherwise ethnically ambiguous, there will always be that person who wants to know, needs to know: \u201cWhat are you?\u201d And while most of us have a stock answer, secretly we\u2019re thinking \u201cI\u2019ve got no clue, dude.\u201d Many of us struggle to prove our authenticity to ourselves first, and find ourselves deeply attached to little reminders of our roots. And those reminders, large or small, become the thread that weaves the stories of our lives. These are a few of those stories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\/five-queers-of-color-on-what-connects-us-to-our-complicated-or-mixed-race-identities-269414\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities Autostraddle 2015-01-02 Hannah Hodson There is a sense of community that comes with being a person of color, but for some of us, settling into that community isn\u2019t always comfortable. Because we don\u2019t get a membership card along with our birth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,666,14646,8,20],"tags":[24929,24925,24927,24926,24928,24930],"class_list":["post-48959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-gaylesbian","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alley-hector","tag-autostraddle","tag-carmen-rios","tag-hannah-hodson","tag-intern-cecelia","tag-kaelyn-rich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959","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=48959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48960,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions\/48960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}