{"id":53844,"date":"2017-05-06T02:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T02:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53844"},"modified":"2017-08-29T02:53:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T02:53:43","slug":"i-had-to-buy-my-identity-for-220-a-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53844","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI had to buy my identity for $220 a pop.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cCertain promoters would want to highlight that I was mixed race, and they\u2019d want me to say that I was like, Southeast Asian, or not Black. Or one guy wanted me to not speak English. I was uncomfortable with a lot, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>I was told I couldn\u2019t have my hair natural. It\u2019s not like I have the curliest of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018fros<\/a>. But they didn\u2019t want me to have natural hair, so I would wear a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_hair_integrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hair weave<\/a> because you couldn\u2019t be a mixed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Asians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blasian<\/a> if you didn\u2019t have silky straight hair.<\/p>\n<p>I had to buy my identity for $220 a pop.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlasianBytch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">N\u2019jaila Rhee<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Esther Wang, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Let\u2019s talk about sex (and race, and gender, and intersectionality)<\/a>,\u201d <em>Open City<\/em>, March 23, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/opencitymag.aaww.org\/lets-talk-njaila-rhee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/opencitymag.aaww.org\/lets-talk-njaila-rhee\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to buy my identity for $220 a pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26956,26957,23065],"class_list":["post-53844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-esther-wang","tag-njaila-rhee","tag-open-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844","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=53844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54873,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844\/revisions\/54873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}