#mixedrace — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mixedrace, aggregated by home.social.
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George Speck and Katie Speck Wicks, American heroes 😭🙏
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1593231/george-speck-and-katie-speck-wicks-american-heroes
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多様なルーツを表す和語ってないんですかね。。。
「混血」はネガティブな印象が強いとよく聞きますので避けていますが、「ミックス」や「ルーツ」とかが通じない高齢の方との会話でわかりやすく伝える言葉ってなんでしょうか🤔Are there any good JP non-katakana words to explain mixed heritage?
I know "konketsu" is a thing, but I've never heard it used in a positive way.
But then, there are older folks who don't understand the loanword uses of "mix(ed)" and "roots," so it makes me wonder if there aren't any good words for conversations with them 🤔 -
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
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Only One #Arrest After #Video Shows Several Neo-#Nazi #GangMembers #Attacking #MixedRace #Family In #Texas #River While Yelling ‘#WhitePower!’, #Report States.
One of the victims described how the #members of the “neo-nazi #gang” had “#swastika” #tattoos and “other #nazi #symbols” on their bodies.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #HateSpeech #Hatecrimes #BlackMastodon
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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!
#CMRS #CMRS2024 #MixedRace #Multiracial #AcademicChatter #AcademicFedi
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"Apsara Aesthetics and Belonging: On Mixed-Race Cambodian American Performance" by Tiffany J. Lytle published in Genealogy.
Research at the intersection of mixed-race and arts (dance)? Yes please! Excited to read:
#AcademicChatter #NewResearch #Arts #Dance #Sociology #MixedRace #Multiracial #AcademicFedi #AcademicMastodon
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Gave midjourney a try - Uploaded a portrait & asked for an urban, scifi-fantasy, motorcycle style. It def gets really confused about where to place lil #hapa #mixedrace me.
While getting confusion about my race is pretty common, how cleary that confusions is being articulated here is pretty interesting.
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Happy dance over here!!! Otter Coast: A Medical Marijuana Mystery... Join in on the book party... because my second eco-fiction novel is ready for you! Read a review, buy & read, add a starred review!
As architectural intern Amalia Sengupta Erenwine grapples with her nascent career in New York City and the consequences of her new relationship, her friend the Reverend Mildred McCaine plans a panel about medical marijuana at her Binghamton church. When these two women take off on a road trip back to Mildred's hometown, they each in their own way intend to prove themselves pure of intent and unencumbered by their pasts. Amalia hopes to demonstrate she's true to her word and figure out her love life, and Mildred is drawn to confront fuzzy details about her family's past. But when the women uncover mysterious goings-on at Mildred's childhood home, an intriguing ancient artifact, and long-forgotten memories of otters at play, their fine intentions come unraveled. How will Amalia reconcile her deeper knowing with her life's goals? And how will Mildred remember and come to terms with her family's history, and her own present and new unfolding?
Links are ready in two places - Barnes and Noble and Amazon...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/otter-coast-maia-kb-chowdhury/1143042148?ean=9798986185415
Canadian link is here:
https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/otter-coast-a-medical-marijuana-mystery/9798986185415.html
UK link is here:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/otter-coast/maia-kb-chowdhury/9798986185415
Asia, Africa, ANZA are best served by Amazon. For international, orders, please go directly to your local bookseller and order with this information:
Maia Chowdhury, Otter Coast, ISBN: 9798986185415
Please add a starred review on Goodreads, as it helps to generate more interest and views, rankings and sales. Tell your friends and share this message...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100779578-otter-coast
Thank you, friends, for all your support in the making of this book! Enjoy!
Maia :-) <3
#Adventure #AmWriting #Architecture #BIPOC #CliFi #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeFiction #CommunityPlanning #ContemporaryFiction #CreativeWriting #Desi #Diversity #EcoFiction #Engineering #Fracking #GoodReads #HighSpeedTransit #HydraulicFracturing #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #Intersectionality #LiteraryFiction #Logistics #Love #LoveStory #Marijuana #MedicalMarijuana #Metaphysical #MixedDesi #MixedRace #Mystery #Nanowrimo #Planning #Rail #Reiki #Transit #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #Visualization
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Anne Marie Nakagawa's #documentary #examines what it means to have a background of #mixed #ancestries that cannot be easily categorized. By focusing on 7 #Canadians who have one parent from a #European background and one of a #VisibleMinority, she attempts to get at the root of what it means to be #MultiEthnic in a world that wants each person to fit into a single category.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/between_living_in_the_hyphen/#MixedRace #Biracial #AsianMastodon #BIPOC #inclusiveness #diversity #BlendedCultures
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More about me (#introduction continued?)
#PolycysticKidneyDisease #PKD #BipolarDisorder #ADHD basically a walking mess of #disability and #ChronicIllness
Raised but not born in #Hawaiʻi (#Oʻahu #Honolulu #Mānoa #808State), #UHManoa grad, now living in #Tennessee (#TheNorth?)
#AsianAmerican #ChineseAmerican #JapaneseAmerican #Hawaiian #Indigenous #MixedRace #Hapa
Enough of an #introvert/#ambivert to want to say hi but not necessarily all the time?
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People often ask me what I listen to when I’m in creating mode, whether in painting or writing. This year was mostly writing. I finished the 10 year trajectory of working on my novel Otter Coast, a medical marijuana mystery (to be published in a few weeks - novel #2 in the ecofiction series) listening primarily to Ludovico Einaudi. And according to Spotify, I am in the top listeners to Einaudi in the US (probably in the world, I would guess). Here’s to creative influence! Thank you Mr. Einaudi!
#AmWriting #Author #BIPOC #Cannabis #Celtic #Desi #EcoFiction #Einaudi #IndieAuthor #IndependentPublishing #LudovidoEinaudi #Marijuana #MedicalMarijuana #MixedDesi #MixedRace #Music #Mystery #NewBook #Novel #Publishing #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #Writing #Writer -
Three Good Things: The Ecofiction Writer Edition
Epic book day: got novel #1 (The Erenwine Agenda, fracking focus) layout output done for new edition to be published with my new name change (going back to my given name, Maia Chowdhury).
Did the “accept all changes” on novel #2 (Otter Coast, medical marijuana focus) and stripped the Word document of macros, ready for book layout. Pub date for Otter Coast: Dec 21!
And just picked up the printed first draft of novel #3 (Rail, high speed logistics focus)- super rough, finishing the first pass during Nanowrimo.
As I went to Staples to pick up the print I thought “I am a writer!” It only took me 3 novels to say so to myself (it’s in my bio and LinkedIn but to say it and mean it to myself is another thing).
Does that qualify as 3 Good Things? I think it does.
#AmWriting #Architect #BIPOC #BIPOCWriters #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeFiction #Desi #EcoFiction #FictionWriter #Fracking #IndieAuthor #IndependentPublisher #Marijuana #MedicalMarijuana #MixedDesi #MixedRace #Nanowrimo #Publishing #Rail #WinterSolstice #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #WomenWriters #Writer #Writing
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3 Good Things, Thanksgiving Edition
1. Shared land, honored spirit; we are in a turmoil of land and habitation and stewardship that is centuries and millennia old, and I believe that's what we are here to reimagine. I appreciate the land, its spirit, and the opportunity to reimagine.
2. My son was born during Thanksgiving dinner, and sometimes his birthday and the holiday coincide; this is one of those years. He's a wonderful and appreciative soul. Both kids are (his brother was born on Indian Republic Day, aligning with my side of the family). Appreciating family today.
3. My children are descended from Mayflower people on their dad's side and that has been both a conflict and a blessing - today, I recognize the blessing in the invitation to be part of a larger conversation about who we are. I appreciate the whole weave.#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings @3goodthings
#ally #ancestry #appreciation #BIPOC #birthday #colonialism #coparenting #Desi #DNA #ethnicity #family #genealogy #Indian #mayflower #MixedDesi #MixedRace #MitakuyeOyasin #reimagine #spirit #stewardship #thanksgiving #weave
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Hi @zhivi ! You asked me to describe my ecofiction... here is my best go at it, this morning.
I write for myself and others who are interested in visualizing what is possible, from a perspective of where we are starting. It's not science fiction. It's not realistic fiction. It's somewhere in between. I call it Visionary Ecofiction. I've written three novels, one is published (The Erenwine Agenda, with a focus on hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process), another is about to be published (Otter Coast, with a focus on medical marijuana and creative states of consciousness) and the third is - well, still being written through Nanowrimo (Rail is the working title, although I have changed it up a few times already; it has a focus on the logistics of high speed transit and community planning - and the protagonist is aiming to save the world 🙂).
All three interweave romance, although they're not romances. I call them adventures, love stories, mysteries... a little of all of these. Visionary Ecoficiton encapsulates the intrigue of all these genres, for me. The work is typically classified as Literary Fiction or Contemporary Fiction, and is also listed as Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction. The Erenwine Agenda was shortlisted for an international publishing award in the Visionary and Metaphysical category, and reached #5 on Amazon in the same group. It's on several Goodreads Lists (including Powell's Books') for classic and new Ecofiction and CliFi (Climate Change Fiction). I began publishing myself, and then branched out into publishing work of other authors when I realized there are many other people like me, who are optimists in the world and who write about ecology. We needed a platform! I created one. (This is the link.) https://www.aseiarts.com/
I think one of the best encapsulations of my work comes in the form of an interview conducted by the old Ecofiction.com site, now Dragonfly.eco. It was written a while ago when I was still married, and was not as far along in my writing trajectory - yet it summarizes the spirit of my work very clearly. (Thanks Mary for updating my name!) https://dragonfly.eco/maia-kb-chowdhury/ @ecofiction
My work (partly what you and I began talking about) also touches on race, identity and social context. I think that is as important in today's emerging conversations about climate as is the basic underlayment of ecology in ecofiction. How we identify ourselves and each other IS our cultural ecology. As a woman of mixed race, who identifies with more than one group, I feel a personal responsibility (and pleasure) to share my own intersectional experience through writing.
Thank you for asking!
#Adventure #AmWriting #Architecture #BIPOC #CliFi #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeFiction #CommunityPlanning #ContemporaryFiction #CreativeWriting #Desi #Diversity #EcoFiction #Engineering #Fracking #GoodReads #HighSpeedTransit #HydraulicFracturing #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #Intersectionality #LiteraryFiction #Logistics #Love #LoveStory #Marijuana #MedicalMarijuana #Metaphysical #MixedDesi #MixedRace #Mystery #Nanowrimo #Planning #Rail #Reiki #Transit #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #Visualization
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@sffbookclub Hello & thank you for boosting!
I'm introducing myself as an ecofiction writer and mixed race author who features #MixedRace characters - first novel is published, that's The Erenwine Agenda (https://www.aseiarts.com/landing-theerenwineagenda) and second novel is about to be published (Otter Coast); third in the trilogy is in first draft mode (working title is Rail but I have changed it twice this week!) and I'm tracking the progress of it in Nanowrimo. Happy to be here! Thanks for creating this group!
#BIPOC #MixedRace #MixedDesi #Desi #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #IndiePublishing #EcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #VisionaryEcoFiction
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CW: Book review and mild promo?!
@bookishbrews I’m thinking I should have you review and/or set up an interview related to my novel The Erenwine Agenda prior to my reissuing it under my new (post divorce) name, and also have you review Otter Coast prior to its publication. Those are novels 1 and 2 in my trilogy (it’s the 3rd one I’m first drafting in Nanowrimo now). The trilogy is ecofiction and has mixed race characters (mixed Desi, mixed First Nations). And other race related themes that I won’t say because they would be book spoilers! Lmk how this works. E-mail [email protected] if preferred. Also tagging @ecofiction as I am interested in having you review these as well from an earth based ecofiction perspective.
And thanks!
#AmWriting #EcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #VisionaryEcoFiction #Nanowrimo #IndieAuthor #IndiePublishing #BIPOC #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM #AsianCanadian #CanLit #AsianAmerican #Desi #MixedDesi #MixedRace #FirstNations #MixedFirstNations #Metis
