“Mixed heritage is, a lot of times, about ambiguity and complexity. Some of it is right there on the surface, like the skin on your hand, your facial features, or your name. Some of it is beneath the surface: your cultural context that is more layered than your skin tone, the family members you don’t look like, the loyalties you have for people who don’t accept you. Mixed heritage oppression is about people’s inability and unwillingness to fathom, acknowledge, respect, and accept these complexities… “Those of us who are transgender have experienced the world in different shoes, different realities, different bathrooms. We’ve stepped out of the gender expectations of our families, communities, and society. Many of us know what it’s like to live as both female and male at different times in our lives. Some of us know what it’s like to be representations of both male and female at the same time… “That, to me, is where trans experience and mixed heritage experience intersect. It’s the ambiguities and complexities, the layers of experience that don’t meet the eye, and the difficulties that people have acknowledging and accepting them. It’s the opportunity to put a unique lens on the world, to see the views that others don’t have eyes for. It’s a cross-cultural experience, an adventure outside of easy categorizations. It’s more than one reality at the same time, code-switching into different languages and codes of behavior, cranking up the brightness and color.” | 
