{"id":55377,"date":"2017-12-05T17:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55377"},"modified":"2019-04-19T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T22:14:13","slug":"life-in-the-hinterlands-growing-up-gay-mixed-race-on-the-isle-of-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55377","title":{"rendered":"Life in The Hinterlands; Growing up Gay &#038; Mixed Race on The Isle of White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/life-in-the-hinterlands-growing-up-gay-mixed-race-in-the-isle-of-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Life in The Hinterlands; Growing up Gay &amp; Mixed Race on The Isle of White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe<\/a><br \/>\n2017-05-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashley Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/life-in-the-hinterlands-growing-up-gay-mixed-race-in-the-isle-of-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_2945-600x400.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life as a mixed gay man seems a singular experience.<\/p>\n<p>Who, what and where are the fluid foundations on which I\u2019m constructed, construed and constrained. To some I am black but not Black, clearly not white or not Black enough. To others, I am an undecided shade of, well, I suppose you might say\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Brown?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isle_of_Wight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isle of Wight<\/a> is a brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/homophone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homophone<\/a>. With its crumbling chalk and its crumbling people, it\u2019s REALLY FUCKING WHITE. It\u2019s located somewhere between the English south coast and 27 years ago. The island could seem blank or barren, but this is no creative backwater. At best, rural seaside racism is imaginative: I admired coconut-kicker most for its tropical rhythm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/life-in-the-hinterlands-growing-up-gay-mixed-race-in-the-isle-of-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AT3.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/life-in-the-hinterlands-growing-up-gay-mixed-race-in-the-isle-of-white\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life as a mixed gay man seems a singular experience. Who, what and where are the fluid foundations on which I\u2019m constructed, construed and constrained. To some I am black but not Black, clearly not white or not Black enough. To others, I am an undecided shade of, well, I suppose you might say\u2026 Brown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,666,8,10],"tags":[17846,25219,81,27835,27834,27833],"class_list":["post-55377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-gaylesbian","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-afropean","tag-ashley-thomas","tag-england","tag-isle-of-wight","tag-the-afropean","tag-the-afropean-adventures-in-afro-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55377","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=55377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55378,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55377\/revisions\/55378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}