https://www.errorbesque.com/tags/autobiographical/Recent content in Autobiographical on errorbesqueHugo -- 0.143.1en-usFri, 16 Oct 2026 11:13:36 -0700https://www.errorbesque.com/posts/on-being-hybrid/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:13:36 -0700https://www.errorbesque.com/posts/on-being-hybrid/<p>How does one reconcile making work in so many mediums?</p> <p>This is a topic I&rsquo;ve thought about a lot, about which I hope to come to a conclusion by writing about it more.</p> <h2 id="being-mixed-race-i-learned-early-what-it-was-like-to-be-seen-as-uncategorizable">Being mixed-race, I learned early what it was like to be seen as uncategorizable.</h2> <p>Summarized in a few lines:</p> <ul> <li>I had in-group access to both spaces, but was othered in both spaces.</li> <li>The ambiguity of my appearance was not something I really thought about<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>, though it became clear that others did.</li> <li>The unparseability of my identity by others contributed (among other things) to an internal uncertainty about my identity<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup>}.</li> </ul> <p>An incomplete list of examples:</p>