#mixed race

[jaybirdlives]

People who try to decide what race a mixed race person is are just ridiculous to me.

What do you mean "if your dad is black, that means you're black"??? What does that MEAN???

Anyone who has tried to explain this to me have just gone into Alpha Chad Hormones Dominant speak it's genuinely so cringe 😭😭😭

[davcha2014]

As much as I despise being trans, I love my name.

I chose my name (David) when I was 12 because it's very masculine, and I wanted people to see my name and not question my gender.

My peers thought David was an odd choice because I could've gone for something "cool", like Ashley.

I've always preferred more traditional names, and "cool" names don't really fly in a white and East Asian family. I also don't really like gender neutral names, because I'm a binary trans man.

At 23, I still love my name and how masculine it is. I also love how generic it is because my surname is a very common Chinese name (like Chang, Chen, etc.), so I can blend in with half of the Chinese community, both in England and abroad.

When people see my name, they don't immediately clock me as trans because it's a generic male name.

If I'd been born male, I'd have likely been called James or Joseph. I love these names, but David just feels right for me.

I feel like we trans guys (and trans people in general) get a lot of crap for our name choices, but we can't let that stop us.

[miratate]

to all my mixed/biracial queens (and kings) who think they don't belong, know you're not alone!

zendaya: african american father + white american mother

doja cat: south african father + white american/jewish mother

bruno mars: puerto rican father + filipina mother

olivia rodrigo: filipino-american father + white american mother

jaafar jackson: african-american father + colombian mother

manon bannerman (katseye): ghaninan father + white european mother

daniela avanzini (katseye): venezuelan father + cuban mother

kylian mbappe: cameroonian father + algerian mother

kat graham: americo-liberian father + white russian/polish mother

pinkpantheress/victoria beverly walker: english father + kenyan mother

cardi b: dominican father + trinidadian mother (afro-latina)

charli xcx: english father + gujarati indian mother

rihanna: mixed race father (african/european) + afro-guyanese mother

p.s please correct me if any of these are wrong, thank you very much!

[clitched-calaxy]

Mixed race pride flag. Make MR a visible societal category.

Society likes to completely neglect us. We, as a group, are often told we "pass" as only one (or sometimes even none) of our ethnicities, and then use that as a way to bully and exclude. Mixed race people are also at risk of violent victimization because race mixing is one of the triggers most likely to invite violence from a racial supremacist. People who are mixed with white are often stripped of the other colors of their heritage, with the slur "white passing" being used on them, as well as slurs related to being accused of colonization.

It's time we made a distinct category for ourselves and wear it with pride. We aren't monoracial, and this monoracial coded world needs to accept that.