Heritage

Being a mixed kid myself, I often had a hard time to feel like I belonged somewhere entirely.
The people in my surroundings looked different from me. Now the environment of my son is more mixed but I know one day he will come to me with questions about identity and culture in the context of where we live...

The first question you get when people find it hard to place you is "What are you!?"

Sources about being mixed

What are you?
'Felt the need to know how I identify as being mixed
I never belonged.
never felt like I fit in anywhere > feel like that's the classic mixed kid experience

We are mostly defined by how we look and what culture we grew up in.
There is not 1 culture that belongs to biracial people.
parents can't just pass bi-racialness on you.
I do think there is sort of a thing as bi-racial culture and it's called 'confusion'.
most bi-racial kids I have met have been through:
who am I, how do I qualify what I am and what am I allowed to claim?
I am more likely to be a diversity-hire.
it draws a weird line between benefitting of white supremacy and getting damaged by it.
(diversity token/ performative whiteness)

When you are biracial, you kinda have to talk about racism

No one has ever been able to identify who I am my entire life
Misreads me, assume, people read me differently all the time
rejection from both sides
I don't fit in or belong fully
we're mostly talking about how we look, right? (colorism)
There is no culture that belongs to multiracial kids. it's either this or that.
Blackness is an umbrella for people around the world with different experiences and I need to sit more under this umbrella

Exposed to internalized racism and colorism because of the lack of intersectionality among white feminists

Biracial, Multiracial, Mixed, Mixed Ambiguous, Person of Color, Halfbreed, Half-caste, Mixed racial, Mixed Blood,