{"id":63514,"date":"2022-03-22T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63514"},"modified":"2022-03-25T00:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:56:59","slug":"new-rules-navigating-black-spaces-in-changing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63514","title":{"rendered":"New Rules: Navigating Black Spaces in Changing Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/new-rules-navigating-black-spaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>New Rules: Navigating Black Spaces in Changing Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed Auntie Confidential<\/a><br \/>\n2022-03-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taressatalks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TaRessa Stovall<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/new-rules-navigating-black-spaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 67%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F05c63913-98c5-42e1-993f-c772db9179df_443x496.jpeg\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 67%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><em>Twenty-one years ago, I was interviewed for a cover story in the late, great <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Issues_Book_Review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Issues Book Review<\/a><em> magazine, with fellow Mixed-Black authors <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Mosley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walter Mosley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Staceyann_Chin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staceyann Chin<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mat_johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mat Johnson<\/a>. The article, by Elizabeth Atkins, explored how we identified on the heels of the then brand-new Census category that made history by including a way for Mixed folks to designate themselves. That\u2019s me in the upper left corner.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Times change, and with them the ways in which some of us move through once-familiar spaces. Lately, I\u2019ve been challenged with how to respond to the new dynamic of Mixed-Black folks being gatekept out of some Black spaces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/new-rules-navigating-black-spaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times change, and with them the ways in which some of us move through once-familiar spaces. Lately, I\u2019ve been challenged with how to respond to the new dynamic of Mixed-Black folks being gatekept out of some Black spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[33318,23102],"class_list":["post-63514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","tag-mixed-auntie-confidential","tag-taressa-stovall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514","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=63514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63544,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63514\/revisions\/63544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}