Picture: @mixdgrlprblems Instagram post No matter where you are in the world, you will find those who connect themselves with the concept of ‘mixed race’. It will mean different things in different places It will mean the same thing in different places It will be mean different things in the same places It will mean something unique to each individual person in each individual life. For me, as a Chinese 'mixed race' woman, I identify heavily with using 'mixed race' as a linguistic home for myself. I have a Chinese mother, born in Indonesia, raised in Nigeria, and a white father born and raised in the UK. Given the erasure of a lot of our Chinese identity in the 'ethnic cleansing' in Indonesia in the 1960s, and my British cultural upbringing, it is hard to claim a Chinese identity without recognition of the white, both optically and culturally, therefore 'mixed race' works well for me. I am also 'white passing' in some spaces, giving me a d