Tag: mestiza
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“Where are you from?”
It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve had a productive couple of weeks though, poetry-wise: poetry events including workshops and poetry slams, submitting poems to journals (and getting accepted!), and writing poems for submission have all been keeping me busy. This last week, I’ve been trying, specifically, to write a poem about ‘belonging.’ One…
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Caught Between Countries
In my last post, I talked a little about my experience as a person of mixed race/ethnicity. I mentioned how, because of this, in both of my countries of origin, I am perceived as an immigrant. Although in many ways I felt that word did not apply to me because neither of the countries in…
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Mixtiza
Mixtiza = mixed [race] + mestiza Lately, I have been thinking about race. In particular, I’ve been reflecting on my experience of race as a person of mixed ethnicity, something I’ve mentioned in previous posts. A little bit of background for you – my mother is a white Anglo Australian, and my father is Filipino, from…
KAYA ORTIZ 