{"id":53745,"date":"2017-04-30T20:41:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53745"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:41:19","slug":"save-your-mixed-tears-and-other-tips-for-mixed-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53745","title":{"rendered":"Save Your Mixed Tears\u2122 and Other Tips for Mixed Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/finding-meaning-in-life-s-struggles\/201704\/save-your-mixed-tears-and-other-tips-mixed-living\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Save Your Mixed Tears\u2122 and Other Tips for Mixed Living<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psychology Today<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Fisk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/finding-meaning-in-life-s-struggles\/201704\/save-your-mixed-tears-and-other-tips-mixed-living\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.psychologytoday.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article-inline-half\/public\/field_blog_entry_images\/JFisk.jpg?itok=H7MKinai\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Source: Jonathan Fisk<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I want to start by prefacing that this article is mostly written with white-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/person_of_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">POC<\/a> mixed people in mind. As a white-Puerto Rican mixed person who strongly claims their Black and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ta\u00edno<\/a> backgrounds, this is what I am, this is what I know, and so this is what I felt capable of writing about. Conversations about non-white mixes are definitely needed, and something being had, but not the focus of this article. That said, many themes here run true for other mixed people who might not fit this category, as well as for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">white-passing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Latinx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latinx<\/a> people.<\/p>\n<p>Know that this has all been written all out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/basics\/relationships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">love<\/a>. I\u2019m writing this with not a hint of shade in my words, but as someone who wishes they heard these words earlier on in their exploration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/basics\/identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identity<\/a> as a mixed person.<\/p>\n<p>1. Don\u2019t feel the need to downplay your non-white identity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/finding-meaning-in-life-s-struggles\/201704\/save-your-mixed-tears-and-other-tips-mixed-living\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to start by prefacing that this article is mostly written with white-POC mixed people in mind. As a white-Puerto Rican mixed person who strongly claims their Black and Ta\u00edno backgrounds, this is what I am, this is what I know, and so this is what I felt capable of writing about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,6462,23674,20],"tags":[26914,3532],"class_list":["post-53745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-jonathan-fisk","tag-psychology-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53745","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=53745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53746,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53745\/revisions\/53746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}