{"id":60303,"date":"2020-11-05T01:04:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60303"},"modified":"2020-11-05T01:06:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:06:04","slug":"deconstructing-my-own-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60303","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing my own privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/10\/23\/deconstructing-my-own-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Deconstructing my own privilege<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Californian<\/a><br \/>\nBerkeley, California<br \/>\n2020-10-13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arina Stadnyk<\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/10\/23\/deconstructing-my-own-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.dailycal.org\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Arina-Stadnyk-online.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=250\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atop a plump inflatable ring, I bobbed along the water park\u2019s lazy river, fingertips skimming the artificially turquoise water, eyes prickling from the omnipresent chlorine.<\/p>\n<p>We were 16 and thicker than thieves, never mind that the last time we\u2019d seen each other was when we were chubby-faced preteens. I was expecting things to be awkward between us when I came to visit my home in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukraine<\/a> after several years, but our friendship turned out to be immune to time.<\/p>\n<p>We shared the giant floating ring at the water park, squished into it side by side. I started as she flailed her limbs in an attempt to steer us in the opposite direction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2020\/10\/23\/deconstructing-my-own-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a biracial person who was born into and raised by a white family and community, I had the privilege of being exempt from the alienation, hatred and distrust expressed toward other Brown people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,8,20],"tags":[31210,28892,28891],"class_list":["post-60303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-arina-stadnyk","tag-daily-californian","tag-the-daily-californian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60303","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=60303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60306,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60303\/revisions\/60306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}