#ykumw

You know you're mixed when you desperately want to connect with your culture but don't know how to because you're surrounded by white people literally all the time.

You know you're mixed when ppl are like "you're not black" and you're like "well I ain't white either so like?"

you know you are mixed when "but you aren't really black" is something that you hear constantly.

You know you're mixed when one sister looks like Merida from Brave and the other looks like Moana

You know you're mixed when you're thankful as hell that you managed to unlearn and outgrow your mother's blatantly racist viewpoints and your father's internalized anti-blackness.

you know you're mixed when your white mother calls you exotic for being being half mexican

You know you're mixed when both of your parents are mixed, so they think the whole family lives in a post-racial bubble, but that is so far from the truth.

You know you're mixed when you have random bouts of imposter syndrome when it comes to one of your lines of ancestry that you identify with. (It suuuuuuuucks.)