you know you're mixed when...

Here you'll find many things pertaining to multiethnic and/or multiracial side of tumblr, from situations many mixed people can sympathize with, to fellow bi/multiracial tumblr users, to blogs celebrating racial variation, and pretty much anything else you can think of. Enjoy your stay!

[st0chastic]

i had a hysterectomy a few days ago and am trying to stay in the room im renting near the hospital for another day or two

currently trying to get money together to make this a thing

check out is at 11 am so i have to get at least $120 together by then (my account is overdrawn by $27 because i had to pay for my refill of methotrexate)

paypal is [email protected], cashapp is gentianviolet, venmo is gentianviolet

if you can help, please donate

if not, consider reblogging?

[st0chastic]

Thank you if you helped me with the above expenses

As of 2/21/21 however, I am currently overdrawn by 30 bucks. I started a new job two weeks ago, but I don’t get paid until the end of the week, and I am financially responsible for myself, my cats, and my brothers’ kids. 

I need $31 to get out of the negative, $40 for groceries (and cat food), $35 for an unlimited metrocard to get to/from work this week, and $35 for copays on two of my medications. That’s $146 altogether. 

paypal: [email protected] cashapp: gentianviolet venmo: gentianviolet

Please consider helping if you can! If not, please consider reblogging this post. Thank you all for your help, past, present, and going forward. <3

I also do writing commissions, too. More on that to come, or feel free to DM me.

- CJ

[mixdgrlproblems]

shoutout to you! 💖

#biracial #multiracial #multiethnic #mixedgirlproblems #mixedrace

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[alloyanthology]

Our Electrum Artist Feature series highlights one of our incredible mixed-race contributors every day of the Kickstarter campaign, both to help us fund and to showcase the voices of all of our artists :]

Artist Feature #3 belongs to none other than Kiana Khansmith. Kiana is a biracial, Japanese Jamaican artist from Hawaii. She studied animation in Oakland, California and currently works in the industry as a storyboard artist for television.

Her non-fiction story, “Hair” is a humorous look at being true to yourself- even if your mixed hair doesn’t necessarily want to cooperate!

We’re looking forward to sharing more of our art and artists with you~

Electrum is 40% funded! Check out our Kickstarter campaign, running until Nov 3~

[alloyanthology]

Welcome to Alloy!

Hi guys!

First post time :] Welcome to a new comic anthology project called ALLOY. Oh great, you’re thinking, do we need another one of these. WELL, yes, and let me tell you why.

I never fit into the standard boxes very well, and over time it became clear to me that most people I know are just as complicated and wonderful. We’re straight and LGBTQ, we’re all shades of skin-colors, we inhabit a spectrum of genders, we’re able and disabled, we’re from so many types of backgrounds and religions and even with all of those qualifiers, so many of us are STILL evolving every day. The box is a relic of the past, and yet every day people continue to reduce complex humans through this unfair lens of either/or.

When I was thinking about names that implied a mixture of aspects, I found words like “muddled,” “motley,” “mongrel” …is that what we’re supposed to think of ourselves?

There are a million points of intersection that form an individual, and it’s time to celebrate this complexity. This anthology is for people who never felt like they fit in a single box to have a space to show off their stories and their journeys, and to let others know what it feels like to be a unique and beautiful mixture.

So ALLOY is an anthology about creating new beauty from existing beauty. Lets empower and inspire the next generation with the love we have for ourselves through visual storytelling. The inaugural volume, Electrum, will focus on celebrating the mixed-race experience, a subject that is near and dear to my heart… we’ll see where it goes from here!

Take some time to look through the site, and let me know if you have any questions! Submissions will open next week, on Sept 27th… I’m looking forward to coming together with you :]

-Der

[shingworks]

Hi everyone,

I’m introducing a new project called Alloy today! Please check it out, and I hope to get to work with some of you too :’]

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

Im mostly white but Im also a mix of native american, and asian. I like to acknowledge all parts of me, but I feel weird knowing I don't belong to just one. Should I just say I'm white since that's what I mostly am.

If you want, Anon

~Mod Tom

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

Ppl(mostly white or Hispanic) always used to think me and my younger brother were adopted bc we looked either Mexican or Asian, but we have the same parents as are other 4 sibs who ppl always think r only white ://(our moms half native and we don't know what r dad is)

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

So my moms half Native American and her mom has a little middle eastern(not sure what) and apparently a tiny east asian and my bio dad was mostly welsh but he told me and my sibs that he had black in his family(but I'm not sure how much so I don't think that really counts) is it ok for me to say I'm mixed? If not what's a better word to use?

Yeah, I think it would be okay to say you’re mixed, particularly from your mom’s side.

~Mod Tom

[theblasianbarbie]

why do ppl think having #Mixed kids solves racism it just highlights a different kind of racism. like this objectification and fetishization of mixed people, this idealization of what we look like and represent….its so gross and also not to mention not all mixed ppl look the same or are allotted the same privileges or born with the same disadvantages. like this fantasy of achieving this post racial society is being placed on unborn bodies and the fetishization of literal children

[crouchingtiger-hiddennegro-deac]

Psa

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

My mom is white and my dad is brown (latino) but I'm way lighter than him and his side of the family and am often told I'm just white by outside people which really makes me feel like I'm not allowed to say I'm mixed and really makes me question my identity a lot because idk how I can identify myself that people won't try to correct always it's draining and makes me feel like I'm not enough of either side to claim anything

I’m kinda in the same boat, anon. To be honest, I don’t know how to id myself either most of the time; I usually just go with half-Latino and half-white or just mixed and hope for the best with that.

~Mod Tom

[dhaoiahafa-deactivated20170814]

New woke way to be white AND racist without getting caught! 

“Why isn’t this person posting selfies if they say they’re [insert nonwhite race here]?” 

“You look really light are you sure you aren’t white lol”

“You don’t have [insert race’s stereotypical features here] and I know at least 3 pocs so um…Why r u racefaking.” 

[dhaoiahafa-deactivated20170814]

addendum: can’t believe I forgot this part 

[anon voice] post pictures of your family to strangers on the internet, if you’re lucky it’ll confirm your race, but we probably still won’t believe you. You might as well go get a DNA test and post the results at this point.

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

ykumw you won’t leave the house without your tribal ID cuz you already know nobody’s gonna take your word that your half native w/out it

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

I'm black and white and am constantly asked "what are you" and people even guess my race. Guys are more excited when they think I am part asian or latinx and seem disappointed my "ethnic" side is just black.

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when one sister looks like Merida from Brave and the other looks like Moana

#201

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

One of the suckiest things ever, is when people continue to say your white after you tell them your mixed. I'm white and black on my moms side and native and Asian on my dads, and because I'm pale skinned and green eyed some of my friends are always telling me I only look white. It makes me feel like my other heritages don't matter, and that I'm constantly defined By my 1/4th of whiteness. I don't want to feel like because I look more white my other heritage doesn't matter. What should I do?....

Well, one, I want you to know that your other heritage does matter, no matter what anyone says because it’s your heritage for one thing, and it’s a part of your life, so no one can take that from you so easily if at all.

Two, what I feel like you should do is to tell those friends to stop calling you white, even if you’re a quarter, and that your other heritage is just as important and a part of who you are.

~Tom

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

You know you're mixed when ppl are like "you're not black" and you're like "well I ain't white either so like?"

#200

[youknowyouremixedwhen]

you know you're mixed when your white mother calls you exotic for being being half mexican

#199