Between places and spacesPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Canada, Media Archive on 2016-08-15 20:28Z by Steven |
The McGill Daily
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2016-03-21
Articulating my identity as a mixed-race woman
“Who are you?” I am a woman of colour. No, I’m a mixed-race woman of colour. My identity is constantly gendered and racialized. While I have come to be very comfortable with my gender identity as a cis woman, my racial identity is different.
My identity as a mixed-race person is constantly changing, felt with different strength according to time and place.
Growing up in Paris, I knew I was not white and not French. Both of these facts were made very clear to me in social interactions, starting at school, where my non-French, non-white sounding name was frequently mispronounced in French mouths and misspelt in French writing. It was picked apart and made fun of, from maternelle (kindergarten) to lycée (high school). It was other and alien, just as I was…
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