{"id":52727,"date":"2017-03-22T13:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52727"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:36:58","slug":"stop-weaponzing-biracial-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52727","title":{"rendered":"Stop Weaponzing Biracial Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/identities\/race\/stop-weaponzing-biracial-children\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Stop Weaponzing Biracial Children<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wear Your Voice: Intersectional Feminist Media<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Femmefeministe\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lara Witt<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/identities\/race\/stop-weaponzing-biracial-children\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/15334174591_5e0d645ba0_k-1000x600.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Raising biracial or multiracial children isn\u2019t a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Band-Aid\" target=\"_blank\">band-aid<\/a> you can slap onto the festering wound that is racism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi! It\u2019s your local multiracial feminist here to remind you to stop weaponizing biracial and multiracial kids for the sake of making white supremacists angry. We have our own experiences, traumas and perceptions. We don\u2019t simply exist to make people angry, so stop dehumanizing us as if we were grenades.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a common theme for a while now, and I remember hearing it countless times growing up: you have the best of both worlds and it\u2019s people like you who will end racism! Cool. So, um, nope. It doesn\u2019t work that way, in fact, it never has \u2014 and, very often, children with multiple ethnicities have identity issues and face a specific type of discrimination and racism.<\/p>\n<p>I have always struggled with feeling like I didn\u2019t belong anywhere: not white enough, not Kenyan enough, not Indian enough. I\u2019m stuck at a crossroads where my understanding of blackness and whiteness is unique, and so it is rather alienating. I have dedicated my life to dismantling white supremacy, misogyny, colonialism and capitalism, but I don\u2019t weaponize my racial identity to do so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.It\u2019s hard to ignore the underlying current of antiblackness when discussing bi-racial kids: when you want cute brown babies with European features and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturallycurly.com\/pages\/hairtypes\/type3\" target=\"_blank\">3B curls<\/a>, you\u2019re talking about a dilution of blackness as a response to white supremacy, and frankly that doesn\u2019t make sense. Frankly, I don\u2019t want to be used as an example for your fetish of \u201cexotic women.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/identities\/race\/stop-weaponzing-biracial-children\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising biracial or multiracial children isn\u2019t a band-aid you can slap onto the festering wound that is racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,125,1196,8,20],"tags":[26611,24550,24549],"class_list":["post-52727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-lara-witt","tag-wear-your-voice","tag-wear-your-voice-intersectional-feminist-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52727","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=52727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52729,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52727\/revisions\/52729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}