Rhi-Mixed Views

Let's re-imagine space Introduction  When you go your whole life being told you do not belong to a specific community, never truly 'fitting' anywhere, its always shocking when you realise there are more communities you are a 'part' of, yet still struggle to navigate them.  I was recently (educationally) diagnosed with  ADHD  (not a medical diagnosis), which really explains a lot of reasons I am the way I am, and it was very  reaffirming  to my sense of self.  But what comes with that is a continued  self-reflection  into my own identity, and who that makes me, where I fit, and where I perhaps do not.  When you are  mixed race in Britain , the monoracial culture attempts to get you to choose one side or the other, for me, either be a Chinese woman or a white woman,  but never both.   When you are in ' neurotypical  Britain', our brains are expected to function in a way that suits the way society has been built,...

We all see it,  but why are we not talking about it?  Love Island is a popular dating TV show in the UK, which places 'attractive' contestants in a villa for a number of months, and viewers watch as they pair up to fall in and out of love. It's huge popularity is due to the levels of relationship drama the UK public love to watch, but it also reveals a lot about how racism can enact itself within dating and how the UK public views interracial couples.  The pictures are the first 'coupling' of the contestants. How this works is each contestant (either all the males or all the females) stand in a row, and the other gender group comes out one by one. The ones standing in the line step forward if they find this person attractive, and then that person chooses who they want to 'couple up with'.  This year,  these rules changed.  This time, the public were given the power to vote for who should be coupled up with who.  Now, the public are given a number of sh...