#whitepresenting

[mixdgrlproblems]

here is a blog post from @jessicaraesparkles about her #mixedexperience and how she presented herself as #White and how she's unlearned and accepted all sides of herself. there's always a story behind why people do this - survival, etc. read the rest of the blog post in my bio! thanks jessica for sharing! comment if this relates to your experiences 👇🏼 #mixedgirlproblems #whitepresenting #whitepassing #growingupmixed #beingmixed #generationaltrauma (at London, England, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnka6fPuI-z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mixdgrlproblems]

@luciesotkovaa: "Can we talk about this? I just wanted to check if any #mixedgirls feel the same; as a mostly #whitepassing person, I don’t feel comfortable calling myself #Poc since I’m light skin and all the ‘hate I’ve ever received was people telling me I would be prettier if I looked #White and being called gypsy. But I also don’t feel like calling myself White bc that’s erasing my beautiful grandparents. I’m just experiencing constant #identitycrisis and honestly neither my white nor brown friends understand and I guess only #mixedfolx will" • • • many here can definitely relate. i'm tired of this asinine conversation, we cant have it anymore. white passing to some is different to others, its just perspectives, not truth. if so i'm only a white person between november and april, how does that work? and some don't think i pass at all. some even say "you're clearly mexican or puerto rican." wrong again, i'm neither of those. #passing and #oppression go hand in hand. people wouldn't need to pass if #racism and #discrimination didn't exist. passing means you're lacking certain stereotypical traits that a specific race has and you can assimilate with another. passing wouldn't exist at all if people opened their minds and realize that black people shouldn't be limited to a few specific shades. mixed race as well. asians. natives. latinos too. you're not lacking anything. you were just born this way and have no control. your family's genes are on shuffle. not everyone who passes is mixed either, so you're just going to give these people an entire new race despite being monoracial??? we can't deny that people who present as white don't have privileges and that's the real issue. not all #whitepresenting people have these privileges and some have been subjected to the worst racism you can possibly imagine. passing and #colorism go hand in hand too. the black community aren't the only ones who need to address colorism. if all skin colors were embraced the same, would it matter? people who argue with you about your identity are having an identity crisis. they're just entitled, dont let them confuse you! #mixedgirlproblems (at Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKKOykEFRZQ/?igshid=1ik8kxpzxpetd

[donnisbutterfly]

#MiriamZinter's story is so interesting and inspiring! Here's the first half, the link to the full article is in my story! what are your thoughts? #mixedgirlproblems #whitepresenting #whiteassuming (at Huffington Post) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXT5iF6FUSw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mersaultatmidnight]

i never expected to make a social justice-y type post about my own experience on here. cause of recent events ive found the need to express myself again, and i really only do it for mental health issues but never really made the connection as to why this is so important for marginalized peoples, so in a way im glad this is happening because its really opened up a perspective for me that ive overlooked that being said what the fuck. can people stop having fucking shitty fucking views on what “white-passing” is? ive had an aversion to the sun for awhile, and have had a skin condition that required a dermatologist prescribing skin stuff and lots of sunscreen so ive been pretty white for a good while. a lot of people, fellow racialized people, seem to think this means i have white privelege. fucking too white to be racialized,, but of course ask a white nationalist if i can fit in with them. ask the kids who called me sandnigger if im white. ask the shop clerks who followed me around while my friends shoplifted if im white. ask the teachers who fucking made my time in a white school harder if im white. ask the (numerous) people who have assaulted me for being brown if im white. ask the girls who have told me “at least youre not THAT dark” if im white. tell me that the internalized shame i grew up with was a privelege. tell me that having to literally punch back because of the colour of my skin was a fucking privelege. you can all fuck yourselves. if youre also biracial or “whitepassing” it does not make it ok to discount my experiences. you do not know everything about racism and privelege just because you are also racialized. dont fucking tell me who has privelege and who doesnt just because you werent there when ive been through bullshit. im not allowed to correct you when you have a shit unnnuanced view? oh. fuck off then. am i saying i have things as bad as those darker than me? no. but this is not a black and white issue. privelege is not a dichotomy of have or have not. christs sake i need a cigarette