On Being Hybrid
How does one reconcile making work in so many mediums?
This is a topic I’ve thought about a lot, about which I hope to come to a conclusion by writing about it more.
Being mixed-race, I learned early what it was like to be seen as uncategorizable. Summarized in a few lines:
I had in-group access to both spaces, but was othered in both spaces. The ambiguity of my appearance was not something I really thought about1, though it became clear that others did. The unparseability of my identity by others contributed (among other things) to an internal uncertainty about my identity2}. An incomplete list of examples:
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