About Me

This blog emerged from my own experiences being biracial and navigating (mostly struggling) through some major identity crisis. With a Native American dad and a White mom, I never learned how my two halves could coexist. Every other biracial person I knew, I saw doing the same thing: desperately trying to squeeze themselves into one side or the other, neglecting and abandoning half of themselves entirely, and carefully erasing parts of themselves as prerequisites to belonging. 

But ripping myself in half in exchange for counterfeit membership did not feel true, authentic, empowering, or sustainable. It had me feeling like a fraud in my own skin. Fractured. Misplaced. Resentful. Defective. Lonely. 

I (slowly and awkwardly) started embracing all the parts of me I formerly wanted to discard. I created this blog to share my narrative in efforts to help ya'll do the same, through the biracial lens. This "Journey to Wholeness" taught me a lot, revealed things I didn't want to hold, and then had me reaching for more.

I wanted to start a community for things I never had - where membership is not based on the math problem of blood quantum or kinship lineage. Where you don't have to be constantly "proving" your worth through performance or relying upon some other, "more qualified" advocate to gain entry. This space is intentionally designed for other biracials seeking that sense of belonging we have always been denied, and for monoracial people who need to get a freaking clue.

While the biracial experience can be incredibly lonely, know that on the other side of all that Racial Imposter Syndrome, bullshit performativity, and relentless lost and fractured feeling, lives a truer sense of self strong than any of these one-dimensional mofos who could never understand this lush life. 

See Ya Out There

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