Nov 20, 2015
New, seeing your mixed girl problem tags has made me think about a problem I've been having for a few years now. I'm a quarter Chinese, but I have no idea if that's enough to count as even slightly mixed. My half-Chinese dad says I'm part Chinese, but everyone else says I'm not. I don't want to erase my Chinese heritage, but I also don't know if it's problematic to call myself mixed.
I hate using the word problematic because I feel like it’s been weaponized in this really vague way that makes it easier to manipulate people with...
But the truth is that anyone who tries to erase who you are, where you come from, where your family comes from—they’re the ones being problematic, not you.