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Name<\/em>:\u00a0Alanna Grace-Marie I am a visual sociologist and multimedia artist. I use my art to tell my\u00a0<\/em>unique story as well as share Black history and culture to uplift my community\u00a0<\/em>with positive representation. My business instagram is @equitable.arts<\/em><\/p>\n Q:\u00a0How has being mixed affected your campus experience?<\/p>\n A: Being a Black presenting biracial woman at a predominantly white institution, representation is hard to find. So I create my own! And I collaborate with others who have intersectional identities to share their stories too.<\/p>\n Q:\u00a0What do you wish more people knew about the mixed experience?<\/p>\n A: The mixed experience is unique for every individual and it can be complicated in unique ways too! This isn\u2019t always a negative experience, we can use our unique perspectives to brighten this world. So please, refrain from placing us in stereotypical boxes.<\/p>\n +1: I will write an autobiography one day soon to show the world how being both Black and biracial has informed me and shaped my experiences in this world. I was raised to act a certain way and certainly, society put more pressure on me to conform. But now, I reject this! I am all of my ethnicities and identities, uniquely me! No need to pick a side.<\/p>\n +2: Blair Imani is an educational inspiration of mine. She also rejects stereotypes of her identities and lives an authentic life to uplift all marginalized individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Name:\u00a0Alanna Grace-Marie Mix: Black, biracial (German & Nigerian) Major & Year: Sociology – Afro-American Studies; Junior Transfer Student I am a visual sociologist and multimedia artist. I use my art to tell my\u00a0unique story as well as share Black history and culture to uplift my community\u00a0with positive representation. My business instagram is @equitable.arts Q:\u00a0How has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2263,"featured_media":22616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1334],"tags":[9,1856,1381,2014,80,2038],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22791"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22936,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791\/revisions\/22936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMix<\/em>: Black, biracial (German & Nigerian)
\nMajor & Year<\/em>: Sociology – Afro-American Studies; Junior Transfer Student<\/p>\n