Late finding this, but it's great.
"In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own" - Danzy Senna
"We are and always have been a Rorschach test for how the world is processing its anxiety, rage, confusion and desire about this amorphous construction we call race."
#MixedRaceStudies #MixedRace #Multiracial
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/opinion/kamala-harris-biracial.html
@jmb@okpeace.org @jmb@babka.social
Also, I often post about #LGBTQ issues
More about me:
I'm #Multiracial of mostly European and #Indigenous ancestry ( #Cherokee and #Tuscarora but am not an enrolled tribal cigtizen)
I'm an #Attorney but also work as an #Editor and a #Writer
For my own learning (and to maintain my in-school #StudentLoan deferrments), I'm a half-time student at #Tohono_Oodham_CommunityCollege
"Multiracial American voters say they have heard similar derogatory remarks about their identities their whole lives."
And multiracial voters are only going to growww. Young people make up the largest percent of multiracial Americans, and many are nearing voting age.
While far from a unified voter bloc, candidates will have to at least consider how their remarks will come across... or at least not sound so horribly ignorant.
"For multiracial Americans, Trump’s attack on Harris felt personal"
"The remarks evoked painful memories for the growing population of Americans who identify as more than one race"
"The Washington Post asked people who identify as multiracial to describe their experiences…
Many said they felt pressured growing up to 'choose a side' and embrace just one racial identity."
Gift link = https://wapo.st/4ftfw2l
Gaither and Sommers were on it!
"Trump’s false confidence in the essentialized either/or nature of identity leads him to believe that once he knows what you are, he’ll also know how you’ll think and act.
...
Acknowledging the existence of multiracial identities completely scrambles this perspective and upsets the stereotypes that Trump holds close to his heart."
#VicePresident #KamalaHarris’ #candidacy is #shifting the #electoral #map.
#Harris, a #multiracial #woman creates excitement among #young, #Black, and #Hispanic #voters, recent #polling shows.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0731/kamala-harris-blue-wall-electoral-map
Sorry if I'm repeating myself, but there is something going on that most people are not picking up on.
This is something that really pisses me off, and has pissed me off my whole life.
Racists cannot accept that interracial marriages exist, and so they cannot accept that multiracial people exist. In order to resolve the cognitive dissonance, they will decide that a multiracial person is one or the other, never both.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kamala-harris-black-nabj-convention-chicago/
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via @wdlindsy
“The same donors and elected #Democrats who pressured Biden to step down now better rally around #KamalaHarris. We’re all paying attention, especially voters of color. We keep receipts”
“Now is the time to stop being afraid and embrace the fact you are a #multiracial and #multicultural party with popular #progressive policies”
“opportunity for #Democrats to unify and go on full-scale offense”
“#KamalaHarris should be fully unleashed now” https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/biden-harris-and-the-test-for-american
I'm looking forward to presenting my work at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association Conference this June. This will be my first time attending in-person!
A shrinking minority of white conservatives is consistently being enabled to hold on to power against the will of the majority of voters
We need to accept the nature of the political contest that will define our era for many years, maybe decades to come.
It is a struggle of world-historic significance, part of a much broader conflict that is playing out in democracies across the “West” and beyond.
Is it possible to establish an egalitarian democracy under conditions of multiracial, multi-religious pluralism?
Or will the reactionary mobilization against such a true democracy succeed in imposing its ethno-religious nationalism and entrench white Christian patriarchy as the “real America”?
An egalitarian multiracial, pluralistic democracy in which an individual’s status was not determined to a large degree by race, gender, religion, or wealth has never been achieved anywhere.
Therein lies the challenge, the danger – but also the very real chance of making the leap to becoming the kind of country America has long promised to be, but never has been yet.
In 2024 and beyond: Onward. Forward.
#egalitarian #multiracial #pluralistic #democracy
@tzimmer_history
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/things-seem-really-bad-right-now
Last one (my current pinned tweet) is my first full-length, non-art publication 
"The Racial Elevator Speech: How Multiracial Individuals Respond to Racial Identity Inquiries."
Using interview data, I argue that #multiracial individuals often have a #RacialElevatorSpeech to field questions about their #race from others. (Think "what are you?" & "where are you from?" 
)
Article in #SociologyOfRaceAndEthnicity / #SRE:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/23326492221098949
My #FirstPublication in an academic journal was actually artwork - two portraits of my grandmothers, with reflection on being #MixedRace / #Multiracial, #antiAsianRacism, and the pandemic.
Unconventional but I'm so glad the guest editors at Journal of Asian American Studies #JAAS gave me a chance.
I think you can see the #illustrations at the link, but here are the originals, and a different color variation I liked but didn't submit. Eye contact in images.
