{"id":64221,"date":"2023-03-19T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64221"},"modified":"2023-03-21T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:06:32","slug":"mixed-auntie-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64221","title":{"rendered":"Identity Wars: Mixed Separatists v. Black Gatekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/identity-wars-mixed-separatists-v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Identity Wars: Mixed Separatists v. Black Gatekeepers<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed Auntie Confidential<\/a><br \/>\n2023-03-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>TaRessa Stovall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/identity-wars-mixed-separatists-v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 80%;\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffc32c4f-bb20-4f01-a3e2-159e6855dc7b_953x513.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Does this fight or fuel racism?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A growing trend has Mixed-race Separatists on one side, insisting that we have to identify ONLY as Mixed or we\u2019re criticized as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One-Droppers<\/a>\u201d for refusing to separate our Mixedness from our Blackness, and rejected as problematic, inauthentic enemies of \u201ctrue\u201d Mixed identity.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, there\u2019s a growing number of young Black folks\u2014seemingly mostly women\u2014who proudly self-identify as Gatekeepers. They\u2019re adamant that Mixed-Black people aren\u2019t Black, can\u2019t call themselves Black, and aren\u2019t welcome in Black spaces. This gatekeeping includes Mixed-Black people who very much identify with Black culture and community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_VlHXjqtmF8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/identity-wars-mixed-separatists-v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this fight or fuel racism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[33318,23102],"class_list":["post-64221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-mixed-auntie-confidential","tag-taressa-stovall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221","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=64221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64231,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221\/revisions\/64231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}