{"id":60806,"date":"2021-05-24T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60806"},"modified":"2021-05-24T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:01:55","slug":"perceptions-of-mixedness-are-still-so-frustratingly-binary-and-often-centred-around-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60806","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPerceptions of mixedness are still so frustratingly binary and often centred around whiteness.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mixed\/Other<\/em><\/a> to add some much-needed nuance to a conversation that is so frequently stilted and oversimplified in mainstream spaces. Perceptions of mixedness are still so frustratingly binary and often centred around whiteness \u2013 I wanted to challenge those narratives and open a more inclusive conversation. I wanted to tell stories or joy, hope and belonging as well as the more painful and sometimes complicated parts of being mixed. It\u2019s the book I wanted to read in my teens and early twenties.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nmozz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalie Morris<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Isabella Silvers, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalie Morris: \u201cIdeas of mixedness are binary and centred around whiteness\u201d<\/a>,\u201d <em>Mixed Messages<\/em>, April 19, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/mixedmessages.substack.com\/p\/natalie-morris-ideas-of-mixedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mixedmessages.substack.com\/p\/natalie-morris-ideas-of-mixedness<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wrote Mixed\/Other to add some much-needed nuance to a conversation that is so frequently stilted and oversimplified in mainstream spaces. Perceptions of mixedness are still so frustratingly binary and often centred around whiteness \u2013 I wanted to challenge those narratives and open a more inclusive conversation. I wanted to tell stories or joy, hope [&hellip;]<\/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":[31399,31330,27733],"class_list":["post-60806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-isabella-silvers","tag-mixed-messages","tag-natalie-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60806","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=60806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60807,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60806\/revisions\/60807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}