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When mixed identity means belonging nowhere fully

I'm biracial and white people think I'm too Black and Black people think I'm too white and I'm tired of explaining myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Existing between categories can create perpetual otherness and the exhausting work of constant self-justification.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity crisis — when self collapses?”

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