diana
filipina, spanish, lithuanian, austrian
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  • August 17, 2010

    Multiracial Bill of Rights

    This is an awesome resource created by Dr. Maria P. P. Root.

    The Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People:

    I have the right:
    -not to justify my existence in this world
    -not to keep the races separate within me
    -not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity
    -not to justify my ethnic legitimacy

    I have the right:
    -to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify
    -to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me
    -to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters
    -to identify myself different in different situations

    I have the right:
    -to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial
    -to change my identity over my lifetime - and more than once
    -to have loyalties and identify with more than one group of people
    -to freely choose whom I befriend and love

    — Dr. Maria P. Root

  • August 17, 2010

    Reading

    The first time I read a story that included a mixed race Asian/mira (I use "mira" for short, instead of hapa, ever since I read this article) character, I felt like someone had just given me a sip of something I always needed to survive, but didn't know existed. I've been an insatiable bookworm since before I can remember. It wasn't until I opened "Mixed: An Anthology of Short Stories on the Multiracial Experience" that I realized I had been searching for something all these years: characters who shared my mixed-ness.

    I'm compiling a list of books written by or about mirasians like us. I really encourage you to pick one up--especially the above mentioned "Mixed," edited by Chandra Prasad.