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mixdgrlproblems · 6 months

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#KhadijhaRedThunder is a #mixed American model-turned-actress making her acting debut in 2019 with the #Wattpad film After, & in the 2020 sequel, After We Collided.

Born & raised in Spokane, Washington, Khadijha boasts a diverse heritage, including #NativeAmerican (#Chippewa #Cree) #Black & #Spanish ancestry. As a teen, she moved to Seattle where she started modeling. Many might assume that Thunder is a stage name, but its actually her real last name.

Shes known for her curls, but she didnt always have them. Her hair was straight growing up & only became curly after she cut it shorter at 13. Since then, her hair has grown curlier each year. “I try everything, but I would never permanently change my curls. They are my life. I love them.” And would you, if you finally had something you been dreaming of since childhood?

"I grew up around #NativeAmericans. My mom was the only one who was Black, she was the only one with curls. Seeing my mom with her curls played such a big part in how I perceive hair. Just how a parent, in general, affects everything. She never complained about her hair being curly; she was always embracing it. She was just so beautiful & carried herself so elegantly. I dont know—seeing a woman so strong, beautiful & natural, to me, shes just an amazing entity, this phenomenon. Straightening her hair was a rarity. She taught me from a young age that it was damaging to apply heat to your hair. I wasnt allowed to use heating tools. She just really showed me the best route was to be your natural curly self."

"Compared to my other friends who are mixed who grew up with two different cultures & only saw beautiful women on tv with straight hair, it totally affects & hinders their outlook on having curly hair. It would be seen as “wild” or “sexy”—they sexualize curly hair. It wasnt elegant. But seeing my mom being so elegant & ladylike with curly hair, feeling like she was embracing her true self, Ive always liked that. Shes always taught me that."

Her first modeling gig was with Nordstrom & she has since collaborated with DKNY, Marc Jacobs & Puma. 🏴🇺🇸🇪🇸🪶

#wcw #nativeamericanheritagemonth #mixedgirl #mixedgirlshoutout #mixedgirlhairstyles

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dittohasadhd · 22 days

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something people just don't understand about Third Culture Kids is that being removed from our first culture doesn't mean we've automatically assimilated to our host culture. we're alienated from our family's culture of origin, alienated from the host culture as well, and expected to navigate both. that's the whole point of the term.

#third culture kid #multiethnic #second generation #vent post

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neptunejheart · 10 months

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I am deeply in love with this photo of myself. It is because I am smiling & didn't expect to look that beautiful smiling. I have been loving my smile more and more with time. It feels unreal that I used to hate it.

My eyes are also so stunning! I love my eyes! Honestly, I am loving how I look lately. I am practicing loving on my physical appearance more and being in my body more since I used to only focus on my internal state of being. It is time to give my physical reality & body some love.

It is time to be present in reality.

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itscoldinwonderland · 2 years

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mixed but monoethnic how does that make sense 🧐

Mixed is really just a catch all for people who are multiracial, multiethnic and/OR multicultural.

I know that the idea of race has been heavily tied to ethnicity and culture, but this is not a truth.

Race is typically defined by your ancestry, the genes passed down to you from your ancestors that control your phenotypes. Race is entirely a social construct, as genes don't work like that. You may have a mother with dark skin and brown eyes and brown hair, and you may have a father with light skin and blue eyes and blonde hair, and you can come out with pretty much any variation of skin color or eye color or hair color. You don't inherit 100% of your mom's genes and 100% of your dad's genes. You inherit 50% of both parents genes, this can be any 50%, it does not have to be balanced. If your mom in this scenerio had 1 black parent and 1 white parent, you might only inherit 10% of your mom's "black" genes. But even this isn't really accurate to say because there are no such thing as 'black" genes. Trying to determine ancestry based on genes is done by comparing your genes to those of people who have similar ones but it is far from perfect science, mostly because race isn't scientific at all. Iran is in Asia, but they have more genes in common with south Europeans then they do east Asians. But the varations in genes exist because of adaptation. So groups of people on the same latitude line can be more genetically similar due to having similar climate. This is why higher latitude means lighter skin.

Ethnicity is about culture and ancestry. You can be ethnically Japanese because you're parents and their parents and so forth we're Japanese. But you're children wouldn't be ethnically japanese if you and your partner are black and moved to Japan, even though your children would probably be immersed in Japanese culture.

Culture is about daily life, tradition, stories, art, culture is everything that a group does and upholds and creates.

Nationality is about the country of origin or country you hold citizenship in.

You can be mixed race and multiethnic and multicultural because your dad is Asian and your mom is Native American.

You can be mixed race but monoethnic and monoculture, because your parents are Mexicans and your ancestors were a mix of Spanish colonizers and native people.

You can be monoracial and multiethnic and multicultural if your parents are both Puerto Rican and Dominican of complete Spanish ancestry.

You can even be monoracial and monoethnic and still multicultural, if you were adopted, if you move to a new country when your young, etc. Some multiracial and multiethnic people don't think these people should be included in the "mixed" category, but I do.

Not all these people might call themselves mix, for a lot of different reasons. It's important to respect individual people's sense of identity. However you'll find that multiethnic, multicultural and multiracial people often go through similar experiences because of the multitudes in their culture and ancestry. So when talking about mixed issues and experience we should include them.

#mixed #mixed race #multiracial #multiethnic #multicultural #multiculturalism #text post

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liealonso · 1 year

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Patterns in Numerology are a natural phenoma. A natural phenomena is an observable event which is not man-made. The Ancients knew this. The Scholars know this. Journal post about this is coming in. Feel like diving deep into this topic at the near future. What do you guys think about Numerology? Interested or skeptic? P.S.: Just created the @liealonso #Tumblr and Twitter accounts. Anyone has those? #numerology #patterns #sacredgeometry #enigmas #ancientknowledge #ancestralwisdom #naturallaw #1111 #scholarsofthenewera #sincronicidades #gematria #sabedoriatranscendental #sabedoriaancestral #sabedoriaoriental #sabedoriadivina #liealonsomusings #arquiteturabr #multiethnic #architecture #transcendência https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGkGk8jQSW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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milkmancatcher · 2 years

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Bc I can’t find an actual job I can physically go to rn and don’t really have any form of transportation to even get to a place of work… I’m just going to start giving myself the energy to do something I can do at home that’ll make me some money but something people actually will want to endorse that I can actually meet demand with and will want to do or have the energy to do.

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mixedracevibes · 2 years

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I studied engineering at UC Berkeley and, if I wanted, I could have buried my nose in a textbook or glued my eyes to a computer screen. But a significant part of my choice in schools was the radical reputation of the school and city.

I joined a student group focused on recruiting and retaining Latino students. One of my activities was visiting local area high schools to encourage applications to the UC. While there was never any shunning of me in the group, I couldn't help noticing that my experience as a Latino was very different from the others, and I believe it was because of my mixed upbringing.

But then I got lucky.

EMBRACING BOTH SIDES

A student group had just formed on campus focused on mixed race students, and I started attending meetings. Among these students, I learned new ways of thinking and understanding race that echoed my own experience. It is very seductive finally finding one's "tribe" and, like becoming addicted to a drug, I was hooked.

And what better place for this to happen than Berkeley? One of the oldest nonprofit groups to support mixed race people, I-Pride, originated there. The first national umbrella organization, Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA), had just formed, headquartered in Berkeley.

The first and longest-running course on multiracial people at the time was offered on campus. And while I didn't know this then, the student group I joined was probably the first of its kind in the nation.

I would eventually come to lead the student group and even join the board of directors of I-Pride my senior year. I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time, with the right inclination to be a part of something.

Through my activism with these groups, I learned of a sister group known as Multiracial Americans of Southern California, or MASC. Meeting since 1986, they were among the charter members of AMEA and presented an annual conference that drew attendees from all over the country.

Like many college students do today, when I graduated, my first stop was to go back home. I was broke but I had a degree. And while it took me a while to find my first job during the recession of the early 1990s, I didn't waste any time getting involved with MASC.

Our focus at the time, along with other like-minded groups across the country, was to change federal standards to allow multiracial people to check off multiple races on various forms, rather than being forced to mark only one.

Forcing someone who is multiracial or multiethnic to choose only one race or ethnicity on a form, when they identify with more than one, is an impossible choice. Imagine being in this position and asking yourself, which race is "primary" in your life?

It is like asking a child which of their parents they love more.

Continue reading the full story here

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chemicalarospec · 1 month

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I dream of a future where everyone is mixed-race. Or at least where we get throttle anyone who tells us we can only be the race/ethnicity they choose for us or that we don't deserve representation and our stories don't matter or that we're sooo exotic and freaky and sexy because of being multiracial or that we're worse and eviler than everyone else or denies us or pigeonholes us in any other way

#mixed race #mixed-race #multiracial #multiethnic #biracial #halfie #whasian #blasian #mixed #i said this #racism #race

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noplacetohidethis · 3 months

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Don't get me wrong, I like my life, and I am proud of my accomplishments. But sometimes I feel so fucking out of place, and everything seems wrong, like I got lost in a life that wasn't supposed to be mine.

Then I start to wonder if I wouldn't feel like this if, 20 years ago, my parents didn't make the decision to move out of Venezuela, splitting my childhood in half. Would I have stayed on my rightful path? Would I feel whole? Maybe I would feel like I have a place to return to.

Then I remember the suffering that everyone who stayed had to endure in this last decade, and I feel lucky I got spared.

#immigrant children #will i ever feel at home #perpetual immigrant #multiethnic #oh well #home is a question mark #immigration #feelings #immigrant #venezuelan diaspora

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thats-it-im-fallingdown · 1 year

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cannot relate to the multiethnic people online who are super open about their culture/family history. no disrespect but if i ever share any of my ancestry on this sideblog it is going to be in bits and pieces with zero explanation. puzzle enrichment for my two followers called guess how that worked out. on hard mode because of the wild card bonus father, divorces followed my remarriages in which I never specify if I’m biologically related to the grandparent or not (because it doesn’t matter to me or them), and my refusal to break myself into fractions.

#text #mixed race #multiethnic

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mixdgrlproblems · 5 months

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Houston, we have a #newprofilepic! December's winner is @savor.garnish! "Hi! My name is Amanda Houston & a friend of mine who was featured before introduced your page to me & I instantly fell in love! 💕. I’m #mixedwith #Black & #White. Key components that #mixedindividuals face is loads of implicit bias. In my experience, White folks feel comfortable with sharing their racially insensitive thoughts with us that they most likely wouldn’t be able to share with someone who is darker. This can be taxing. Then you have the other side which in some cases assume you have privilege when in all reality we take in the complexity of racism beyond one’s perspective. It can be a double edge sword. My highlight to #beingbiracial is that due to this experience I have developed deep empathy & communication styles that I feel have assisted me in resolutional conversations.

I have a background in HR & have participated in developing race & social justice initiatives in the work place & have been able to drive my passion to advocate for others. I’m changing my tempo on my journey & I started a food inspiration page which I am currently building up to expand on starting a business. I’m a Gardner & home cook & dabbled in event planning catering some years back, but after a devastating health complication in the last year - I decided life is short & cooking & inspiring people to learn how to garden is how I want to spread my light - with a touch of advocacy✨🌿

Misshouston35 is my personal account & my inspiration food blogging page is @savor.garnish 🌿.

This is a wonderful page & I’m just proud to be a part of the movement you created! It’s a vibe & a tribe & we need this for our culture ✨💃🏿. Thank you for taking the time & allowing me to share this space with you. 🥂"

Congrats to her! Make sure to congratulate her in the comments! We're a vibe & a tribe, I LOVE that! Thanks again to everyone who entered, see you next year!

#mixedgirlproblems #december

#biracial #mixedgirls #mixedrace #mixedgirlbeauty #mixedchick #mixedgirlshoutout #mixed #mixedgirl #multiracial #Instagram #mixedgirlproblems #mixed girls #multiethnic

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tcfishadventures · 2 years

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Selamat Hari Raya! Yesterday marked the end of Ramadan, a holy month of fasting for Muslims. An employee gifted me/the company a nice Hari Raya decoration and a clock last week. I am thankful for people like her who make the company a pleasant place to work. I am glad that my company could be a place where people of all religious backgrounds can practice their faiths freely. Well, I do. And I make sure everyone else can. #intercultural #multiethnic #work #ramadan #gift #hariraya (at Hightec Plating Sdn. Bhd.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdFUjr7r8Ur/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#intercultural #multiethnic #work #ramadan #gift #hariraya

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neptunejheart · 9 months

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🌟I am living, being, doing, dreaming, & existing.🌟

🌊My only purpose here is to be the best me I can be. I am moving with the flow. I am trusting myself. All is well.🌊

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overleftdown · 4 months

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farleigh start and racism; oh boy.

(some people are going to find this post really annoying. some people are like felix catton.)

read this.

just some thoughts from the perspective of a person of color who is slightly too obsessed with this character. this movie leaves the viewer a lot of wiggle room to interpret how dynamics such as race and privilege come into play. there are certain parallels between this movie and the real world, and how unnoticeable white privilege tends to be for white people.

lemme lay some groundwork. from what i understand, the most prevalent form of racism and white privilege within upper- and middle-class circles is implicit bias. this is racist conceptualization that subconsciously interacts with one's perception of society and people. implicit bias is often externalized through microaggressions, differences in treatment and language towards a marginalized person, misplaced guilt or pity, and persistent denial of any existing privilege or marginalization. most of these biases are also founded on stereotypes. some racial stereotypes are heightening (e.g. asians are all smart) and some are lowering (e.g. black people are all lazy). all stereotypes are harmful. i'm going to discuss some of the stereotypes that could theoretically interact within the saltburn canon, as well as some things i've noticed within viewers. can of worms, to be honest. boutta get INTO IT.

to use one of my externalization examples, let's discuss (or, more accurately, let me discuss) the denial of existing privilege or marginalization. this is a subconscious way to uphold a sense of morality, effectively avoiding "white guilt," so to speak. as is clearly presented to us, the cattons are very attached to their methods of upholding their own self-righteousness. saviorism is a common theme within both elspeth and felix. in oliver's conversation with elspeth about poor dear pamela, you can see that oliver recognizes elspeth's need to justify her actions in an attempt to preserve her sense of decency. one can only assume that this applies to how they view farleigh's relationship with them. there's more to talk about there, but i'd like to start with the only overt mention of race in this movie.

in felix's confrontation with farleigh, farleigh makes the bold and brave decision to mention his blackness. i call this brave because it's genuinely a terrifying thing to do, and the end of this conversation is proof. "oh, that is... that is low, farleigh. seriously, that's where you want to take this? make it a race thing? i never know our footman's names; the turnover for a footman is notoriously high!" we have felix's intentional or unintentional shaming of farleigh. we have felix's appalled denial of any involvement of race or racial bias. we have felix's diversion away from farleigh specifically and onto his own inability to know his staff's names. felix made no further attempt to recenter farleigh, aside from telling him that the cattons have "done what they can." (which is SO absurd on its own. they are clearly and obviously able to do more. they are disgustingly rich). farleigh does feel ashamed after felix's response; you can see it on his face, and archie says it directly. here is a relevant and prevalent stereotype for all marginalized people: that the discussion of marginalization is exclusively weaponized to gain something or manipulate a situation. this is how felix chooses to see farleigh's implication of existing white privilege. this conversation results in nothing, does nothing, as felix chooses not to confront what he's probably thinking as he repeats the words "begging bowl" to venetia.

now. saviorism, guilt, and pity. felix specifically tells oliver that sir james made an effort to support farleigh out of guilt. i'd like to order some things in a way that i perceive them. frederica start runs from england, which is explained in a condescending way by felix. frederica start marries a so-referred-to "lunatic" who dug through fred and jame's money, although it's farleigh who only mentions fred's financial irresponsibility. out of guilt, james offers to pay for farleigh's education. the specificity of education is compelling to me. perhaps james is simply a patriotic man who strongly believes that english education is better. or this is a mobilized racial stereotype! who can truly know. i digress. james' offer to pay for farleigh's foreign education puts the cattons in an odd position; if farleigh is to attend english schools, he will need to stay with the cattons. if farleigh is staying with the cattons, he will need to be treated as equal to felix and venetia. this is all one long chain of obligations. none of these acts from one family member to another should be considered "charitable," because family should intrinsically create a trustworthy and supportive dynamic.

i believe that the cattons do consider their fostering of farleigh as obligatory. moral obligation, as they recognize that families are intended to have a sympathetic and loving relationship. they cannot, however, escape the truth that they're just guilty. the "begging bowl" and "biting the hand" are more symbolic of a starving dog and its charitable adopter than a cousin/nephew who's staying with his absurdly rich family. see, the cattons are fully and entirely capable of affording another child, of supporting frederica financially, etc. the only way i can rationalize their reluctance to do so is by assuming that they don't feel like farleigh deserves it. is this a crazy assumption? i genuinely don't see why else. of course, i don't think this mentality is explicit or conscious. it's more-so the reality that when farleigh walks in a room, he's not the same as anybody else. aside from background characters at oxbridge, the only on-screen black people are liam, joshua, and james' godson's wife (who gets degraded on-screen). this is the reality of being different in an environment such as the english aristocracy. the cattons choose to see themselves as the hand that feeds the less fortunate, more entertaining, and least inconvenient. the cattons' inclusion of farleigh is not only reliant on how well farleigh performs, but also on their own pity and guilt.

all of this is somehow, painfully mirrored by some takes i've seen on farleigh. maybe this entire post is presumptuous, but you know what isn't presumptuous? saying that certain people hold farleigh to an incredibly odd standard. while the cattons never canonically said anything along the lines of "farleigh doesn't deserve our love and support," mfs on the internet have. the number of times people have referred to this character as greedy, lazy, petty, and malignant is so odd to me. i'm insane, i know. i just don't understand how people can hold farleigh to the backdrop of an english aristocratic family and so passionately say that he, of all characters, is the most detestable. or that he, of all characters, has no reason to behave in the way he does.

is farleigh greedy? greed is defined as a desire for more. farleigh has no desire to climb ranks, no desire to replace or surpass felix, no desire to hold any power over any family member. he is maintaining, upholding a standard that has been set for him throughout his life. is it kind or selfless of him to meddle in other people's affairs with the cattons? no. does he have a reason to be upset that non-relatives of the cattons are a threat to his inclusion in the first place? yes. is farleigh lazy? i don't even need to explain this one. no. if you don't consider oliver lazy, then i really don't want to hear anything. is farleigh petty? pettiness is defined as "an undue concern for trivial matters, especially in a small-minded or spiteful way." farleigh's meticulous attention to trivial matters isn't undue in any sense. a person of color and their meticulous attention to trivial matters is almost never undue. elspeth is a good example of petty. is farleigh malignant? there are a lot of definitions of malignant and i've seen people apply all of them, in some way, to farleigh. that's just wrong. archie madekwe once said, "i was interested in humanizing what, on paper, seemed like a mean character, a villain, or a bully. i don't think he's any of that. he's very self-serving, but i think he's really a heartbreaking character." case closed, this was for my own piece of mind. had to write this section because good lord.

in conclusion to this post that has gone tragically off the rails, i think the in-canon and viewer perspective of farleigh is, perhaps, a little racially motivated. sue me. they are all very centered on this idea that farleigh doesn't deserve inherent respect, support, and love. to remove farleigh's rational position within the cattons family would be akin to removing his right to familial love. genuinely, that's how i see it. the transaction nature of farleigh's actions is responsive. he sees felix as a social shield at oxbridge, he sees elspeth and james as the beholders of his perceived security, and he sees saltburn as a way to escape from his lack of privilege and his lack of stability in america. boom. bam. pow.

#farleigh start #saltburn #saltburn 2023 #i love making it a race thing #took multiethnic lit and racial sociology this quarter #critical race theory is my weapon of choice at any given moment #“erm actually”#the “i love making it a race thing” is a jest #white people b making it a race thing without even knowing it #like hello ur the one who fucking started it #womp womp on GOD on griddy #i tried to explain to someone that i related to farleigh because i'm also half white and my white family is painful to exist around #and this mf said “erm u actually relate to him cuz ur a horrible person and so is he”#hello what #i'm not doing what farleigh is doing like obv i don't live in a fucking castle #but the girls that get it get it #i'm incapable of shutting up #ever #actually #yabbering on at 1am #talking to the voices in my head #the voices r saying “farleigh start u will always be famous”

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formula-swift · 5 months

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I am speechless 🫠

Taz looks gorgeous here and I love the darker blond and the eyes like this is such a lethal combination.

When his Middle Eastern features are highlighted, it is so HOT.

#taz skylar #aka #tarek yassin #i have a lot of feelings #such a beautiful multiethnic polygot #i won't shut up about this

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liealonso · 1 year

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Working on interior compositions with the finest materials ⚜️ Lie Alonso compositions are rich, soulful, bold and exotic. An alchemical mystery to be sensed, absorbed, relished and experienced. A tale of a thousand eras towards a vision of Divine living from all dimensions. #liealonsodesign #liealonsoprocess #materiality #colourschemes #privatejetlifestyle #privatejetinterior #privatejetdesigner #privatejetdesign #aviationdesign #aircraftinterior #aircraftdesign #londonluxury #luxurydesign #architectinterior #opulencia #lawofabundance #lawofopulence #multiethnic #multiculturalidad #multidimensionalidade #divineliving #timelessluxury #ancientfuture https://www.instagram.com/p/CoaXCtVge8I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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