#mixedness

[anakrojak]

Hello and selamat datang sweethearts!

Above you will see a screenshot from the first ever episode of my radio show at Operator radio called, 'The Eye of the Storm'. I was accompanied by my rockin' friend Yara Jundi, who shared space with me to discuss mixedness in all its variations. You can still check out the audio on https://operator-radio.com/ if you search The Eye of the Storm - 01 w/ Anak Rojak & Yara Jundi.

We dived into her identity as a Syrian woman who grew up all her life in Dubai and then moved to the Netherlands. We spoke about modesty, religion, Arab culture, divisions, connections and so much else. It was a real pleasure to take a moment to give space to this oddness of finding ourselves in the grey space in the middle.

The next episode will be the 10th of January from 13-14pm with the yet-to-be-announced guest! So remember to check out the live stream for video and audio content.

I am so excited to be on this journey and cannot wait to see how it evolves and grows. Thank you for joining me :-)

From my heart to yours, Nina <3

[thephenotype]

[metissagesanguemisto]

The Mixologist - Hand us over the MIC - Special Guest: Sarah Doneghy

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[eggbagelz]

Hey so whats up with this

[johnwicklover1999]

all the rap related shit on tumblr creating an uptick in people just being hella racist abt rap is driving me crazy. like oh my god listen to r&b you dumb bitch. if you don't listen to rap or hiphop or whatever bc its abt violence, gang shit, hoes, sex, whatever, then listen to r&b.

i would IMPLORE folks to listen to r&b, it is just as incredible as rap. a lot of r&b 'staples' (classics? ion know what word to use) have so much meaning.

the other day i was listening to "Waterfalls" by TLC (my fav TLC song <3) and my eyes actually widened as something finally clicked. the line, "His health is fading, and he doesn't know why / Three letters took him to his final resting place" is so goddamn profound.

black music is PROFOUND. it's full of so much meaning and soul that it's just crazy, and it means so much to a lot of people! it's good music!

just going off of r&b i'm familiar with, i'd say a lot of it is about relationships, admiration, advice, storytelling, sex and intimacy, and passion. blackness being at the core of all of those.

now, my whole life my dad has always listened to hiphop and r&b radios. for awhile now i've actually been trying to get into that music on my own bc these songs have always been like, a background track of my life. songs i loved but never knew the names of, or never really thought about the lyrics. even though these are songs i've known my whole damn life there's still so much that i can explore and appreciate within the genre. and it's crazy bc these folks can do the exact same thing and it ain't even cross their minds!!! just irritating 🙄

here's a link to spotify's 90s r&b playlist for my mutuals n shit who might see this. i'm most familiar w 90s r&b, so a lot of the songs i love n cherish dearly are in there ♥️

[decompose1]

stuff i associate with my gender in no particular order

angels (i am one)

cats (angels) (same thing)

cygnets

bilaterial gynandromorph animals

adam

wolves

furby i suppose

[stlaika]

Ur gonna keep seeing that pete wentz mixedness post so help me god

[felinecorpse]

If it's not others sexualizing mixed Asian people it's mixed Asian people doing it

[jack-o-daniels]

What gets me sad from seeing so much hate, discontent, and desinformation is that it shows me that, were they to obtain power and money, they would turn out just the same as those they hate.

[iza-bean]

En af stamgæster på mit arbejde gav mig 2 potteplanter med blomster i går og sagde derefter at han synes at jeg er blevet lidt tyk. Hvad er denne her opførsel Kenneth?

[pastadoughie]

Howd you get so good at silly dumb kitty talk

wel u see when u let thea sillaynes guide u iit just comese naturaley

but if yuo wante my wisdom for maximum sillaynez typinhjg thea maine thing i woul sugges is phonetisizing

withine engliss orthografy their are maney wayse to phonetisize thea same sounde with differen ledderse and still hav it bea correct for exampol

silly

sillee

sillie

sillea

r all correct wayse 2 spel the saem pronounseation of taht word, howevor u can spice it up with phonetisizing a specifik dialect or witf intentionnalley mispronounzing and then subsiquendley diferentley phonetisizing a word slightley

for exampol i liek to change e & a soundz into o sounds, like ovor instead of over

alsoe, be inconsistaent!! itse funeyer

i phonetizize my dialekt + intenshinal mispronunseationse of wordze + add silent ledderse liek e's at thea end + rearange thea ledderse in certaein wordse like yuo insed of you + skip silly bowls and split up wordse into similor sounding porshins + am bad at typeingg n gramor so extra sillay

alsoe be creative witf punctuashjin!11!! mispel uyr punshuashin!! liek usimnhg >> insed of .. amd 11 ised of !!! (moste readabol wehn mixede liek 11!!!11!!1!!@2!1!1!) alsoe use periodse n commase whene ur typimhg and ur pausinhgn 2 colleckt ur thougtse liek,,,,,,, uhmmm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, this <- i litoraley jus holde it downe whiel i thinke so ite carriese thea spacinge it woul hav if i wear 2 actuyaley spoke it

+ homonymse r niec liek usinhg "incorrect" their and youre

[pumpumdemsugah]

It's a shame because I liked Amber Rose. Haven't thought about her in years but she always seemed pleasant and wasn't spotlight hungry. Guess I was wrong about the last part

Another light skin women being a fucking idiot is that Mixed woman with a tiger tattoo on her face. She said black people ruined her life. Were Black people ruining your life when being light , mixed and pretty got you a career ? I still remember people calling her stupid when she got that tattoo on her face. Back then people were telling her she was being ridiculous but the attention and fawning drowned that out.

It's black people that ruined your life woman with a tattoo on your face? Hmmm lol You're not good at thinking babes. She said she had too much empathy. No you didn't, it was easier for you to get ahead in black spaces and it's obvious now she never saw herself as part of the community. She banked on male attention and realised how pointless that was. She banked on her mixedness and her beauty and she found out beauty isn't real power because you'll always be traded for a newer model so it's important to make sure you invested the resources you got access to properly. Sounds like she didn't

[eggbagelz]

Me: hey based off what hes told us abt his experiences and what he refers to himself as and how he says he feels alienated from every community he's part of it'd be better and more respectful to call pete wentz mixed than to decide what racial group he Belongs to for him

Americans who think the word mixed is a slur: into the pit with you

[johnwicklover1999]

mixedness and self perception [of race] are so interesting. my blackness has always been related to a sense of not knowing who i am and just generally not knowing, but at the same time it's. not? my blackness, comfort in my blackness, giving myself permission to acknowledge my blackness, is just a sense of day to day life. it's a feeling that's so casual, comfortable, healthy, and safe.

real shame i don't let myself feel that often

[the-crystal-in-chronicles]

There is a racism problem in the British Caribbean diaspora and nobody is talking about it

Hi guys, this isn’t FFCC-related, but this is an issue very near and dear to my heart.

I’ve noticed that there’s a racism problem in the Caribbean diaspora abroad, particularly in the UK. I’ve seen (and experienced!) it myself as a Caribbean person who frequently travels between my home country and the UK, and who has tried to become involved in the British Caribbean diaspora.

For context, the Caribbean is a lot more ethnically diverse than people give it credit for. Jamaica’s motto, for instance, is “Out of Many People,” and there are significant minorities of South Asian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern folks on the island. And then there’s Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, and Guyana, which are all very multiracial countries. Other Caribbean countries are quite diverse as well, but these are the nations that are particularly famous for multiculturalism in the region.

Sadly, there was a relatively recent post on this hellsite that reminded me of the racial supremacy, gatekeeping, and outright bigotry/racism that British Caribbean folks I know irl and myself have experienced. A (relatively popular) Black British blog was saying that the Windrush Generation belonged only to Caribbean folks of African descent, and harassing a Caribbean commenter who pointed out that Windrush migrants were actually a diverse cohort. The poster then proceeded to go on a rampage and accuse the commenter of racism…for educating a non-Caribbean person about their own culture. The fact that an actual Caribbean person- and a Windrush descendant- was being excluded from their own culture and history was so fucking vexing to me. Bullying a Caribbean person correcting an inaccurate post about their own heritage is absolutely vile behavior.

Like…I have friends in the UK who are of non-Black Caribbean descent, and they’ve spoken to me about how they are told that they’re not “real” Caribbean people, about how they are not included in Caribbean Societies on campuses or in Caribbean groups in general (even if they were raised in their home country and have a strong accent!), how some Afro-Caribbean folks refuse to acknowledge them as fellow Caribbean people because “they may be Caribbean, but they’re not like us.” I’ve personally faced these issues as well.

There is a divide drawn between the “real” Caribbean folks and the “fake” Caribbean folks based on ethnicity. And in my experience, I’ve noticed that it’s the second- and third-generation Caribbean people pushing this racism and exclusion. Aka, the folks who’ve never set foot in the Caribbean before and for some reason believe that being of African descent makes their “Caribbeanness” more legitimate than an Indo-Caribbean or Indigenous Caribbean or Chinese Caribbean who was actually born and raised in the region.

And this makes me sad and angry. There shouldn’t be so much division and bigotry in the British Caribbean diaspora. Why are my people fighting? What happened to “all ah we is one family”?

Anyway, if you’re a non-Caribbean person reading this, please do some research on Caribbean culture in all its facets. Research Indo-Trinidadians and their traditions, the Kalinago/Caribs of Dominica, Chinese cuisine in Suriname, how the culture of Indian indentured laborers helped contribute to Rastafarianism, the Portuguese in Guyana. And there’s so much more!

I promise you, Caribbean diversity is absolutely beautiful to read about and even more wonderful to see in person. As someone who is mixed with literally every ethnic group that has come to my island, I am proud to say that my mixedness is inherently tied to the Caribbean landscape. It is only the bigoted who are afraid of diversity.