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When others expect you to represent all mixed-race people

I'm exhausted from being everyone's spokesperson for mixed-race experience when half the time I don't even know what I think about my own identity.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The burden of representation assumes a clarity and authority about identity that many mixed-race individuals are still developing within themselves.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mixed-race identity and belonging?”

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