#monoracial

i get that it's easier for monoracial people to refer to multiracial/biracial people by whatever race they appear as but it's also served as a sort of form of erasure for many of us. there are so many important people in society, in history, in politics, even, that i had no idea were also multiracial because people just kept referring to them by whatever race they most closely resembled. thanks guys

another thing: if you are creating a biracial character or headcanoning a character as biracial, please, for the love of who-fucking-ever, allow them to have variation in skin tone. there are kids out there with one dark-skinned parent and one light-skinned parent who might not come out “sort of light, sort of dark” or “medium”. some will come out exactly as dark, sometimes darker, than their dark-skinned parent. some will come out pale as fucking ghosts. this does not un-biracial-ify them. they are still biracial. play with the possibilities of genetics every now and again! or stop making biracial characters for a while if you would rather not.

stop using “biracial” when you mean “light-skinned” and “monoracial” when you mean “dark-skinned” or so help me i WILL break out of my enclosure. i will wreak havoc amongst the park-goers. biracial people can have ALL skin tones (and be of ANY combination of races). monoracial people are not always going to be darker!

‘biracial privilege’ is not a thing b/c biracial people can be of any skin color, and of any combination of races; not all biracial people are light-skinned, white passing, or half-white. like, white passing privilege exists because, regardless of racial and/or ethnic background, if you can successfully convince others you are a monoracial white person, you gain privilege from that. but the biracial demographic is so large and the amount of experiences so diverse and vast, that ‘biracial privilege’ could literally never be a thing. monoracial people please take notes

speaking of monoracial people not fucking knowing how to act around biracial people, i remember i was telling two monoracial friends about how my parents are both two different races, with one of them being brown and the other being white, and immediately they (without even really acknowledging what i’d said beyond a lame utterance of, “oh cool,”) derailed the conversation into talking about white guys fetishizing and abusing woc. you know how people talk about how “there’s a time and a place for certain topics, and bringing them up in select situations, depending on prior context, can come off as weird and inappropriate”? yeah, that was that. white guys fetishizing woc in their relationships is a very real issue, but i feel like bringing said issue up right after i mention having a white father and a brown mother, whose relationship is healthy and leaves absolutely no room for fetishization, is... somewhat socially inept. mind you i didn’t even get around to describing this relationship to them yet. i just said, “yeah my dad is white and my mami is brown”. and of course, monoracial people being monoracial, their mind immediately jumped to the topic of fetishization, and they didn’t consider for one moment that in doing so, they indirectly implied to me that they believed the relationship between my different-race parents to be some weird kink, and not a legitimate and loving union.  where’s the imaginary biracial-people club when you need it

sometimes it gets to the point where im like, yeah i should start a club exclusively for mixed people because nobody’s kidding when they say “the mixed kid/person experience is Everyone On Both Sides Completely Hates And Rejects You Like 60-80% Of The Time” like monoracial privilege really does not exist, kinda like how monosexual privilege doesn’t exist, but if you’re monoracial i still want you to be VERY careful at all times about how you discuss mixed people. or i’m going to give you rabies.