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It was difficult to manage and never really sat the same way (many tears were shed as my mother combed my hair), despite the exact same methodology of styling. Multiple friends told me that they could pick me out from across the playground by recognizing my halo of curls that stood out in the sea of straight hair. Still, as I would learn later, my hair was considered the “good” type of hair — not overly kinky or coily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen.jpg\" alt=\"A woman smiles from a gray sofa. She has long, curly brown hair and a friendly face. She wears a gold necklace and a black, sleeveless dress. 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I learned how to navigate the question of “What are you?” as a lesson in geography. Most people in California hadn’t heard of the small island country my mom was from called Cabo Verde. My dad, a white Californian, had a less exciting origin story, but was still an important factor for people getting an answer to their initial question. Years later, I would realize that question wasn’t about me. It was a reflection of how race in the U.S. is constructed as a binary — you are this or that. There is no in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was too white for the Black folks and too Black for the white folks. Or rather — it took too much explanation to both groups with whom I was supposed to be part of that I did, indeed, belong. It didn’t help that I routinely got mistaken as Latina. 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I also didn’t see a place to have an honest conversation about how structures of race and racism shaped these perceptions. I started \u003ca href=\"https://www.mixedkidchronicles.com/\">Mixed Kid Chronicles\u003c/a> to create that space for conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Katie Andresen, San Francisco\"]‘I don’t want to be put in a box. I am multiracial. I am Black. I am a woman. I am from California. I am proud to be a product of the people and communities that have raised me.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this dialogue, I’ve learned that white people are generally very uncomfortable discussing race, while people of color can’t escape it. I’ve learned in discussing race, you have to be comfortable making mistakes and learning from those mistakes. I’ve learned that race is different depending on which country you’re in. I’ve learned my power in bridging gaps because of my dual heritage. I also know I’ll never experience racism like my darker-skinned family members and individuals. Most of all, I’ve learned that no one’s experience is quite the same, and despite points of salience, we should allow room for those points of divergence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, I enjoy unpacking the messy, complex world of race. It is a construct built by structures of power to enforce a certain world order. Questioning it, stretching it and testing it is the only way to find yourself in this world. I don’t want to be put in a box. I am multiracial. I am Black. I am a woman. I am from California. I am proud to be a product of the people and communities that have raised me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Andrew Jabara, Tustin\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m Chinese and Lebanese, born and raised in Orange County, California. 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Sure, I knew other Chinese American kids, but their parents emigrated from China in the 1990s, not the 1890s. Arab American identity at the turn of the 21st century meant defending pride in my heritage against a barrage of slurs and threats. English was my first language; I never learned Cantonese, and I barely knew any Levantine Arabic. At home, we made a variety of American staple dishes, but also folded pot stickers and wontons, cooked coosa rice and tabbouleh, turned leftover Thanksgiving turkey bones into jook, or packed a pita and lebni sandwich for lunch. We celebrated Chinese New Year and played Lebanese egg games on Easter. From a young age, even if I didn’t have the words to express it, my background made me aware of the wealth of cultures beyond homogeneous suburbia, how they were interwoven within me, and how they could intersect in the world at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sonia Dholakia, Atherton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m Indian on my dad’s side and white on my mom’s. I remember going to Benihana’s with my mom when I was in elementary school and starting a conversation with the woman sitting adjacent to us. She turned to my mom and asked, “And your husband is … ,” trailing off and waiting for her to complete the sentence. In that moment, I realized that being mixed was not the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling family of five sit on an outdoor planter with chubby, green bushes behind them. From left to right: A bald dad with glasses sits next to his daughter with long, brown hair and jeans. She, sits next to her brother who smiles holding a happy tan dog with floppy ears. He is seated next to his mother with blond hair and a gray, scoop-neck blouse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGSoniaDholakia01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonia Dholakia (center left) is a student at Menlo School in Atherton. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonia Dholakia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, being mixed has become a crucial part of my identity. I’ve been able to celebrate two very different cultures, enjoying both Diwali and Christmas traditions, but I also faced rejection from both sides of my identity. I often feel too white for my Indian friends, but too Indian for my white friends. I used to feel like I didn’t belong anywhere, like I was living in the middle.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sonia Dholakia, Atherton\"]‘I often feel too white for my Indian friends, but too Indian for my white friends. I used to feel like I didn’t belong anywhere, like I was living in the middle.’[/pullquote]I knew there were other mixed kids at my school, but I didn’t have a place to share my experience and to learn from theirs. This upset me, and I created an affinity group for mixed students like myself. It has been so rewarding to have a place where I know I can be my true self and others can be theirs. At our first meeting, we all answered the question, “When did you first realize you were mixed?” Hearing everyone’s honest, vulnerable answers, I knew we had created that safe community I sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chanda Stacker-Chung, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a mixed kid, you can always feel the stares. Eyes would travel from me to my mom, to my dad, and then back down to me when I’d walk alongside my mom and dad. To this day, “What are you?” remains the most popular question I receive from strangers and acquaintances alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1884px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01.jpg\" alt=\"A family is pictured sitting inside a restaurant setting. A grandmother, two parental figures, and their young daughter all smile for the camera. The daughter wears a royal blue college graduation sash around her shoulders.\" width=\"1884\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01.jpg 1884w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGChandaStackerChung01-1536x1019.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1884px) 100vw, 1884px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanda Stacker-Chung (far right) with her grandmother and parents celebrating her college graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chanda Stacker-Chung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was a child, I always answered by telling people that I was Black and Filipino. Somewhere down the line, I started answering that I was half Black and half Filipino. I never realized how my language in identifying myself (from saying I was Black and Filipino to saying I was half Black and half Filipino) was influenced by others around me. Perhaps it was an attempt to preemptively answer the clarifying questions that always seemed to follow: “Oh, so you’re half-and-half?”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chanda Stacker-Chung, Oakland\"]‘To this day, ‘What are you?’ remains the most popular question I receive from strangers and acquaintances alike.’[/pullquote]At my father’s funeral in 2020, the hearse driver observed my blended family and was curious who he had the honor of driving to the service. “My dad,” I said. He followed up wanting to know more about my background. So I shared that I was half Black and half Filipino. He stopped me and said, “Now, wait a minute, you’re not half of anything.” I’ve been conscious of my language ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leo Bersamina, North Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I grew up with a German/French mother and a Mexican/Filipino dad in the ’60s and ’70s. After my father left when I was 4 years old, my mom raised us kids on her own until the age of 8. Even growing up in liberal San Francisco, we would get a lot of looks as a family with my mom being white with five brown kids. This continued when my white stepdad married my mother, but as I got older, it mattered less to me. Eventually, a few other mixed-race families moved into our community, which made me feel more connected and confident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a bright, yellow, long-sleeved shirt smiles in front of a multicolored, funky-patterned mural. He stands with his hands on his hips.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Leo Bersamina in front of his mural on the side of the Adobe Founders Tower in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Leo Bersamina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While it continues to be a confusing issue for me to choose an identity, I try to work through it in my art practice by celebrating all of my ancestral influences through the ideas I process visually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently created \u003ca href=\"https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/09/29/behind-the-brush-celebrating-art-community-leo-bersamina\">a large mural in San José for Adobe Inc.\u003c/a> that relates to the idea of being mixed. This project was a great way for me to convey what I have been feeling my whole life: that being mixed has been a rich experience.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leo Bersamina, North Bay\"]‘Even growing up in liberal San Francisco, we would get a lot of looks as a family with my mom being white with five brown kids.’[/pullquote]One aggravating aspect of being mixed is that most of the government forms are too limiting. While some have gotten a little better in regard to me choosing an identity, it is still a pretty difficult issue for me, as the questions about identity are mostly heavy-handed with not enough nuance. I often find myself having to choose “other” as an answer, which doesn’t feel right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a college professor, being mixed has helped me make connections with many of my students, connections that may not have been available to me if I had not been of a mixed race. It has allowed me to have multidimensional perspectives that I can share with many students, creating a rich learning environment in my classes. Overall, it has been a blessing for me to have a mixed background. I feel comfortable with many types of people, and can relate to many types of perspectives. A bonus is that I often find myself at home whenever I travel to Latin America, Asia, Polynesia and Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maya Sisneros, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m of Chinese and Mexican descent. I believe the mixed-race category is often romanticized and rendered unique, even though mixed-race people have been around since the early days of colonialism. It’s a complicated identity that, in pop discourse, we’ve often conflated with a fantasy of racial progress and multicultural harmony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg\" alt=\"Two sisters wear large, straw sun hats and smile for the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Sisneros (left) with her sister. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Maya Sisneros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing we don’t talk about enough that complicates the mixed-race umbrella is white privilege. Mixed-race people with a white parent get a significant amount of privilege because of their whiteness. Even if they don’t look white, they still benefit from other aspects of white privilege. People who are mixed minorities don’t have that same access to white privilege, and tend to have a very different lived experience.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maya Sisneros, Oakland\"]‘I believe the mixed-race category is often romanticized and rendered unique, even though mixed-race people have been around since the early days of colonialism.’[/pullquote]What many mixed-race people do share are questions of belonging, and not being “x” enough. But are these shared experiences of “not belonging” or “belonging to both” substantial enough to characterize a unified identity? Maybe instead of an identity, it’s a shared orientation, a unique position to make more choices around your relationship to your racial and ethnic identity. I’m always interested in reforming the question “Who are you?” to asking instead, “What choices are you making around your identity?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d love to see KQED complicate the narrative around mixed-race people as unique, by exploring the limits of today’s pop discourse around mixed people or by exploring the history of how the mixed-race identity became popularized and how this affects the distribution of race-based resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alexa Senter, Contra Costa County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One thing that sticks out from growing up mixed is that look from random elders. I grew up with a lot of narratives about my family’s identities. On my mom’s side, I heard about her maternal grandmother’s hidden Native American roots and my grandpa’s strict German uncles who didn’t approve of children playing when they could be working. On my dad’s side, the narrative was always “somos españoles” because one distant grandfather arrived in California with the first wave of colonizers and missionaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While my grandma, who quietly claimed “Indian” heritage, looked much different than the rest of our family, I came to believe that she likely appropriated Native identity to establish some kind of belonging and ownership in the American West after migrating to Washington from Tennessee during WWI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01.jpg\" alt=\"A family of three is pictured inside a clothing store with T-shirts hanging in the background. To the left, a father wears a black bicycle helmet with tropical shirt. In the center, an older daughter wears an army green hat with blue tank top as she smiles. To her right, her mother wears a black tank top and smiles hugging her daughter.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGAlexaSenter01-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexa Senter with her parents, Art and Carol. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alexa Senter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since my family is small and most of my elders have passed, I have always gotten so excited when strangers (usually older women) share a sly smile and speak to me in Spanish. And, while that excitement is usually quickly replaced by panic about my mediocre language skills, the joy of being seen helps balance out the “What are you?” and “Why do you talk like a white girl?” questions that I generally got from my peers. My first job here in the Bay Area had me doing a lot of promotional events in the South Bay. On multiple occasions, older South Asian aunties would approach me with incredible warmth and sometimes even ask me about my Indian heritage. I’d respond with happiness from just feeling included and say something along the lines of, “Oh, I am kind of a mutt but I am not South Asian, as far as I know.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alexa Senter, Contra Costa County\"]‘Since my family is small and most of my elders have passed, I have always gotten so excited when strangers (usually older women) share a sly smile and speak to me in Spanish.’[/pullquote]Since losing both my parents, I have spent a lot of my 30s digging deeper into the family archives and even exploring genetic testing to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. Family trees and genetic testing confirmed that my dad’s Spanish identity was, in reality, mostly Indigenous Mexican heritage. I also now know that those aunties I met in San José were on to something that none of my family realized. That grandma who claimed to be Indian? It turns out she was indeed Indian … just not the American kind. The aunties always know.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ariane Li, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Being mixed gives you the benefit of being able to engage with multiple cultures as part of your heritage. I’m Karen on my mom’s side (ethnic group from Myanmar) and Chinese/white on my dad’s side. I get to celebrate all the Western holidays like Christmas, Easter, etc., as well as Eastern holidays like Lunar New Year. I feel particularly lucky because all sides of my family like each other and enjoy celebrating with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01.jpg\" alt=\"A family of eight stand smiling outside of a house. There are two males and six females pictured.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGArianeLi01-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariane Li (far right) and her cousins at Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ariane Li)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nobody can tell you what you are or are not. If and when you do get bullied or put down by other people for being mixed, it’s not just white people who do this, other people of color will absolutely put you down for being mixed, probably because it makes them feel better and more secure about their own identities. But people will judge you for engaging in a culture you’re part of if you don’t look (Asian, Latino, Black, etc.) enough to belong. Mixed people tend to get caught in the crossfire of calling out cultural appropriation, especially if they’re white passing. I think most mixed people have learned to give others the benefit of the doubt before calling out cultural appropriation because that other person wearing a kimono or using cultural slang might also be mixed.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ariane Li, San Francisco\"]‘Talking about growing up mixed is an easy way for mixed people to relate to each other, especially when they know the other person isn’t going to judge them for it.’[/pullquote]You also learn to recognize other mixed people really quickly. Talking about growing up mixed is an easy way for mixed people to relate to each other, especially when they know the other person isn’t going to judge them for it. I’ve been able to turn my mixed-ness into a fun guessing game when meeting new people because they always want to know what you are, but, being part of a minority ethnic group from a semi-obscure country in Southeast Asia, most people don’t know to guess “Karen.” I think if some people grow up with more connection to one culture early in life, they’ll try to reconnect with other parts of their identity when they’re older. For me, personally, I grew up surrounded mostly by the white side of my family. Now that I’m an adult, I try to connect more with the Chinese/Southeast Asian side by incorporating things from those cultures into my creative projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maria T. Allocco, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I never saw myself reflected in the world: this is something mixed-race people know. To never read a children’s book written for someone like you. To never see yourself in any school material. To never watch a film with actors who look like you. I never saw myself reflected in the collective reality. As a mixed-race Korean and Italian writer, I learned to trust and represent my own experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01.jpg\" alt=\"Two grandparents stand with their young granddaughter amid green trees and a pond of water. A ceramic statue of a saint is also in the background. The photo is old and has a classic patina to it.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMariaAllocco01-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Allocco with her grandparents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Maria Allocco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I felt what I imagine monoracial people may feel in the presence of other monoracial people like themselves was in a room full of only other mixed-race people at Oakland’s East Bay Meditation Center. In 2012, Michele Benzamin-Miki facilitated an all mixed-race meditation workshop.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maria Allocco, Oakland\"]‘The love mixed-race people have for our parents and extended families inspires and often requires multiple understandings. We carry them with us throughout our lives.’[/pullquote]My body received a mutual understanding. We shared a foundation of experiences and affirmed them for one another. Afterwards, I co-founded a mixed-race meditation group at the EBMC with four other mixed-race people. My wish was for others to also experience conscious community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The love mixed-race people have for our parents and extended families inspires and often requires multiple understandings. We carry them with us throughout our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the past eight weeks, the California Report Magazine has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mixedrace\">featured the voices of a diverse array of mixed-race Californians\u003c/a>. Musicians, teachers, activists, parents and teenagers described the joy of belonging to multiple ethnic groups and their ability to bridge divides because of their identities. But, they also shared feelings of loneliness and isolation, of not “being enough.” Now, we hear from members of KQED’s audience about their experiences, focusing on the question: “What’s something only fellow mixed folks understand about growing up mixed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Katie Andresen, San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I tend to start my story of being multiracial with my hair. Growing up, it was the thing that defined me. In contrast to my classmates, who possessed a mostly straight assortment of blonds, browns and black, my hair sprung from the base of my head outwards and had a mind of its own. It was difficult to manage and never really sat the same way (many tears were shed as my mother combed my hair), despite the exact same methodology of styling. Multiple friends told me that they could pick me out from across the playground by recognizing my halo of curls that stood out in the sea of straight hair. Still, as I would learn later, my hair was considered the “good” type of hair — not overly kinky or coily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen.jpg\" alt=\"A woman smiles from a gray sofa. She has long, curly brown hair and a friendly face. She wears a gold necklace and a black, sleeveless dress. A happy, green house plant is positioned behind her and the light shines brightly on her face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGKatieAndresen-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Andresen is the host of the podcast Mixed Kid Chronicles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Israel Alemu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would take many years later to realize that my combination of curly hair and light skin was confounding to many. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At my father’s funeral in 2020, the hearse driver observed my blended family and was curious who he had the honor of driving to the service. “My dad,” I said. He followed up wanting to know more about my background. So I shared that I was half Black and half Filipino. He stopped me and said, “Now, wait a minute, you’re not half of anything.” I’ve been conscious of my language ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leo Bersamina, North Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I grew up with a German/French mother and a Mexican/Filipino dad in the ’60s and ’70s. After my father left when I was 4 years old, my mom raised us kids on her own until the age of 8. Even growing up in liberal San Francisco, we would get a lot of looks as a family with my mom being white with five brown kids. This continued when my white stepdad married my mother, but as I got older, it mattered less to me. Eventually, a few other mixed-race families moved into our community, which made me feel more connected and confident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a bright, yellow, long-sleeved shirt smiles in front of a multicolored, funky-patterned mural. He stands with his hands on his hips.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGLeoBersamina01-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Leo Bersamina in front of his mural on the side of the Adobe Founders Tower in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Leo Bersamina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While it continues to be a confusing issue for me to choose an identity, I try to work through it in my art practice by celebrating all of my ancestral influences through the ideas I process visually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently created \u003ca href=\"https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/09/29/behind-the-brush-celebrating-art-community-leo-bersamina\">a large mural in San José for Adobe Inc.\u003c/a> that relates to the idea of being mixed. This project was a great way for me to convey what I have been feeling my whole life: that being mixed has been a rich experience.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One aggravating aspect of being mixed is that most of the government forms are too limiting. While some have gotten a little better in regard to me choosing an identity, it is still a pretty difficult issue for me, as the questions about identity are mostly heavy-handed with not enough nuance. I often find myself having to choose “other” as an answer, which doesn’t feel right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a college professor, being mixed has helped me make connections with many of my students, connections that may not have been available to me if I had not been of a mixed race. It has allowed me to have multidimensional perspectives that I can share with many students, creating a rich learning environment in my classes. Overall, it has been a blessing for me to have a mixed background. I feel comfortable with many types of people, and can relate to many types of perspectives. A bonus is that I often find myself at home whenever I travel to Latin America, Asia, Polynesia and Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Maya Sisneros, Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I’m of Chinese and Mexican descent. I believe the mixed-race category is often romanticized and rendered unique, even though mixed-race people have been around since the early days of colonialism. It’s a complicated identity that, in pop discourse, we’ve often conflated with a fantasy of racial progress and multicultural harmony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg\" alt=\"Two sisters wear large, straw sun hats and smile for the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/TCRMAGMayaSisneros01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Sisneros (left) with her sister. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Maya Sisneros)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing we don’t talk about enough that complicates the mixed-race umbrella is white privilege. Mixed-race people with a white parent get a significant amount of privilege because of their whiteness. Even if they don’t look white, they still benefit from other aspects of white privilege. People who are mixed minorities don’t have that same access to white privilege, and tend to have a very different lived experience.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a hot early August evening, at a National Night Out event hosted by the small Orange County city of Garden Grove, Democratic congressional candidate \u003ca href=\"https://chenforcongress.com/\">Jay Chen\u003c/a> introduces himself to voters at the police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen, who is still relatively unknown here, often leads with his biography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a veteran as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mtsac.edu/governance/trustees/members/chen-jay.html\">community college trustee,\u003c/a>” the 44-year-old Harvard graduate and former Navy intelligence officer tells a group of voters. “I have a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old, and we’re going to make sure that our kids are safe in school and put an end to this gun violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 minutes away, in a Target parking lot in the city of Westminster, Chen’s Republican opponent, incumbent Rep. Michelle Steel, is similarly making the rounds, and catching up with longtime friends and constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really good because I can see a lot of people. I thank all the police officers, firefighters,” said Steel, 67. “I used to be a fire commissioner in Los Angeles, so I know how it goes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County, long a reliable stronghold for Republicans, has become a battleground for congressional races in recent elections, and this year is no exception. The race here, for District 45, is one of three in this county alone, and among the 10 statewide, that the Cook Political Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings\">has listed as “competitive.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means voters here will now help determine the political balance of a closely divided Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 45th District is “anyone’s election to win or lose,” said Jodi Balma, a Fullerton College political science professor. “It’s a toss-up race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steel won her seat in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-10/in-big-republican-victory-harley-rouda-concedes-to-michelle-steel-in-o-c-congress-race\">defeating first-term Democratic Rep. Harley Rouda\u003c/a>, when Republicans had gained a marked registration advantage in the district. But redistricting has completely reshaped the area Steel is now running to represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No longer dominated by the more conservative, wealthy coastal cities, the new 45th District includes more middle- and working-class areas — it stretches as far east as Brea and includes Cerritos in Los Angeles County. And Democrats now have a 5-point registration advantage here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, it’s a notably diverse district — nearly 37% of residents are Asian American, 36% are white and 23% are Latino. And it includes large immigrant and refugee communities from Vietnam, the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Steel’s old district was 70% white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think [Steel] reflects the old district,” said Balma, who has tracked OC politics for more than two decades. “However, the district has fundamentally shifted so that very few people who will be voting in November have had Michelle Steel as an incumbent congresswoman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"michelle-steel\"]Still, despite the registration numbers, Balma said, Chen has a formidable challenge ahead of him, leading up to November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in a new district, Steel is well known in Orange County — she \u003ca href=\"http://newportbeachca.gov/home/showdocument?id=52153\">served on the county’s Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> and, along with her husband, has been active in local GOP politics for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she’s also a staunch conservative in an increasingly purple district. Just this summer she voted \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022373\">against same-sex marriage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022385\">contraception access\u003c/a> measures, and she \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1011/cosponsors?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22life+at+conception+act%22%2C%22life%22%2C%22at%22%2C%22conception%22%2C%22act%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1\">co-sponsored a bill that would ban all abortions\u003c/a> at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen, on the other hand, is campaigning on protecting abortion rights, gun control and \u003ca href=\"https://chenforcongress.com/on-the-issues/healthcare/\">access to health care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure that we protect health care, your rights. When you want to start a family, that’s your decision,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balma said those policy differences could help Chen, but there’s no guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will depend on how the campaigns frame the question. And so if Michelle Steel can frame the question that she is a moderating vote against a Biden/AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] agenda, she has an advantage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Balma added, Chen would be wise to hold Steel accountable for her votes against contraception and same-sex marriage, both of which she called “extreme positions in Orange County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Steel says she aims to highlight her votes against tax increases and government spending, and her support for law enforcement and harsher criminal penalties. A large swath of voters, she says — not just Republicans — are angry this year, about inflation, gas prices and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually NPP [no party preference] people are kind of quiet about who they’re going to vote [for],” she said. “Now it’s totally different. They’re saying, ‘You know what? I need somebody who can take care of the economy, crime and other stuff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chen says that, unlike some Democrats, he’s not trying to shy away from those pocketbook issues, but instead is seeking to reframe them and focus on the real culprits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that we bring down costs. Talk more inflation,” he said. “You know, there’s a lot of price-gouging going on right now. We’ve got Chevron and Exxon. They made $30 billion in profits in the last quarter. That’s much more than they ever made before, while we’re paying record-high prices at the pump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Eames, who was volunteering at the National Night Out event in Westminster, where she’s lived for more than 50 years, told Steel that she and others in her church congregation were praying for more members of Congress like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more like her because we have far too many that are destroying our country right now,” Eames said. “And we’re praying for certain things — one of them is, we are highly concerned about the children. And critical race theory. And the homosexual agenda in the schools — all of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Garden Grove, Diana Tran was receptive to Chen’s message on efforts to curb gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I homeschool my kids right now and we started homeschooling because of the pandemic. But then, like, hearing about gun violence, hearing what’s going on in the community — it’s really, really hard to integrate ourselves back into society,” she told Chen at the police station event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing both candidates like talking about: their own immigrant family stories. Steel was born in South Korea and grew up in Japan; Chen’s parents are Taiwanese and moved to the Midwest before Chen was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are hoping those backgrounds will help them connect with voters in a district that’s one-third Asian, including one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the state. But Balma said each candidate likely appeals to different segments of the diverse Asian American community here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a monolith. And the Asian American voters are not even a monolith within the different ethnicities. Not all Vietnamese Americans vote the same way. Not all Koreans feel the same way,” she said. “[Chen and Steel] are generationally different. Their immigration stories are generationally different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balma also noted that younger Vietnamese voters tend to skew Democratic, while their parents and grandparents still identify with the GOP — in some cases, because of the party’s historic anti-communist stance, an issue that for decades has loomed large over politics in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the candidates’ few overlapping positions, for instance, is their mutual support for Taiwanese independence and their outspoken opposition to China’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Balma wonders whether the national Republican Party’s recent shift even further to the right — including its embrace of autocratic world leaders like Hungarian President Viktor Orbán — could hurt conservative candidates in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, do Vietnamese voters still believe that the Republicans are against communism when you see them, you know, inviting and cozying up to dictators and fascists?” she said. “I don’t know how that plays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like most close elections, Balma added, this one will come down to who’s paying attention — and actually turns out to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story misidentified Jodi Balma’s employer . 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Just this summer she voted \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022373\">against same-sex marriage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022385\">contraception access\u003c/a> measures, and she \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1011/cosponsors?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22life+at+conception+act%22%2C%22life%22%2C%22at%22%2C%22conception%22%2C%22act%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1\">co-sponsored a bill that would ban all abortions\u003c/a> at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen, on the other hand, is campaigning on protecting abortion rights, gun control and \u003ca href=\"https://chenforcongress.com/on-the-issues/healthcare/\">access to health care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure that we protect health care, your rights. When you want to start a family, that’s your decision,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balma said those policy differences could help Chen, but there’s no guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will depend on how the campaigns frame the question. And so if Michelle Steel can frame the question that she is a moderating vote against a Biden/AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] agenda, she has an advantage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Balma added, Chen would be wise to hold Steel accountable for her votes against contraception and same-sex marriage, both of which she called “extreme positions in Orange County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Steel says she aims to highlight her votes against tax increases and government spending, and her support for law enforcement and harsher criminal penalties. A large swath of voters, she says — not just Republicans — are angry this year, about inflation, gas prices and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually NPP [no party preference] people are kind of quiet about who they’re going to vote [for],” she said. “Now it’s totally different. They’re saying, ‘You know what? I need somebody who can take care of the economy, crime and other stuff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chen says that, unlike some Democrats, he’s not trying to shy away from those pocketbook issues, but instead is seeking to reframe them and focus on the real culprits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that we bring down costs. Talk more inflation,” he said. “You know, there’s a lot of price-gouging going on right now. We’ve got Chevron and Exxon. They made $30 billion in profits in the last quarter. That’s much more than they ever made before, while we’re paying record-high prices at the pump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Eames, who was volunteering at the National Night Out event in Westminster, where she’s lived for more than 50 years, told Steel that she and others in her church congregation were praying for more members of Congress like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more like her because we have far too many that are destroying our country right now,” Eames said. “And we’re praying for certain things — one of them is, we are highly concerned about the children. And critical race theory. And the homosexual agenda in the schools — all of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Garden Grove, Diana Tran was receptive to Chen’s message on efforts to curb gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I homeschool my kids right now and we started homeschooling because of the pandemic. But then, like, hearing about gun violence, hearing what’s going on in the community — it’s really, really hard to integrate ourselves back into society,” she told Chen at the police station event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing both candidates like talking about: their own immigrant family stories. Steel was born in South Korea and grew up in Japan; Chen’s parents are Taiwanese and moved to the Midwest before Chen was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are hoping those backgrounds will help them connect with voters in a district that’s one-third Asian, including one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the state. But Balma said each candidate likely appeals to different segments of the diverse Asian American community here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a monolith. And the Asian American voters are not even a monolith within the different ethnicities. Not all Vietnamese Americans vote the same way. Not all Koreans feel the same way,” she said. “[Chen and Steel] are generationally different. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/\">California Report Magazine\u003c/a> features a conversation with KPCC reporter Jill Replogle, whose three-part series “Home Is Life” is the opening season of the new LAist podcast \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/podcasts/imperfectparadise\">Imperfect Paradise\u003c/a>. We hear excerpts from Episode 2, which explores the \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/fullerton-homelessness-nimby-supportive-housing-imperfect-paradise\">battle in Fullerton over an effort to build a new apartment complex\u003c/a> to get unhoused people off the street.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get unhoused people into stable housing is a question cities across California are grappling with. But the problem isn’t always finding land or money to build permanent supportive housing — often, it’s the neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Gillanders runs an organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.pohoc.org/staff/\">Pathways of Hope\u003c/a>, which works to end homelessness and hunger in Orange County. He was frustrated with the limits of services for unhoused people, which tend to go not much beyond things like church soup kitchens and clothing drives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53771_David-Gillanders-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53771_David-Gillanders-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53771_David-Gillanders-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53771_David-Gillanders-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53771_David-Gillanders-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53771_David-Gillanders-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Gillanders, executive director of Pathways of Hope, at the proposed site of an apartment complex for chronically unhoused people in Fullerton. \u003ccite>(Jill Replogle / KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yes, handing out toys to families matters. Yes, everyone’s got to eat,” Gillanders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s literally homelessness. It’s not souplessness, you know what I mean? It’s not clotheslessness. It’s not showerlessness. It’s homelessness. Demonstrate for me how homelessness is ended with anything other than a set of keys, a lease and a place to call home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53772_Curtis-Gamble-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53772_Curtis-Gamble-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53772_Curtis-Gamble-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53772_Curtis-Gamble-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53772_Curtis-Gamble-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53772_Curtis-Gamble-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curtis Gamble in his studio apartment in downtown Fullerton. Gamble was homeless in Fullerton for eight years. He was able to rent the apartment with the money he got from a settlement with the city of Fullerton over the city’s failure to zone for homeless shelters. \u003ccite>(Kyle Grillot/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gillanders led an initiative to build an apartment building in Fullerton to house 60 to 80 people who are chronically unhoused and have a disability, which could include mental illness or a substance abuse disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to get it approved, the Fullerton City Council told Gillanders he’d have to convince the neighbors. But that proved harder than he thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spent a lot of money to buy homes and to get our kids to school and, you know, just to live the American dream,” said neighbor Stephanie Bromley. “We feel like our safety and our well-being is being compromised and no one’s thinking about us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bromley ran a Facebook group that became a forum for complaints about people experiencing homelessness in the neighborhood. Bromley said she felt compassion for unhoused people, handing out McDonald’s gift cards to people she encounters around town asking for money. But she didn’t support the idea of formerly unhoused people living in an apartment building in her neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned that we’re going to attract people from other cities and then they’re going to become our responsibility,” Bromley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Fullerton residents express more vicious takes on their unhoused neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Reese generated a local following in Fullerton by \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIAEfZIjiPmYnq9ZFHdtqzA\">posting videos of her “interviewing” people\u003c/a> she presumes to be unhoused. Some videos feature her asking her subjects if they want help and then berating them if they refuse or waver. Others feature her disparaging commentaries, as she films unhoused people from a distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Imperfect Paradise podcast follows Reese and a group of neighbors as they tour other permanent supportive housing for chronically unhoused people in Orange County. Fullerton City Council members and proponents of the Pathways project suggested it might be illuminating for residents to see some existing developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']But the tour seemed to backfire. Fullerton neighbors got particularly upset when the tour stopped at an apartment complex in the city of Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know permanent supportive housing is what experts say is the best way to keep people off the street,” said Bromley. “But it bothers me that our taxpayer dollars are paying for these people to live with amenities like a pool, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, walk-in closets, movie night, etcetera. And they never have to work. You know, it makes me wonder why I work so hard, you know, and tell my kids they need to go to school and do well for themselves and everybody getting all these things for free. It’s frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, tenants do pay rent: 30% of their income, which could come from employment or disability insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that information didn’t convince the Fullerton neighbors skeptical of the Pathways project. When the tour stopped at another permanent supportive housing project, the Rockwood apartments in Anaheim, Reese jumped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can I get this kind of assistance and not have to work?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, if you go live on the street for a year, stop working, then you would qualify,” responded Danielle Ball, whose job is to help tenants at Rockwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you went out and if you decided you don’t want your house, you don’t want your car. You don’t want any single asset that you own and sell everything and go out on the street and lose it all … [and] after being on the street, most likely you will get a mental health diagnosis because it’s pretty bad out there … then you could qualify, 100%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/podcasts/imperfectparadise\">Listen to the Imperfect Paradise podcast\u003c/a> from LAist studios to learn more about the battle over permanent supportive housing in Fullerton, and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/fullerton-homelessness-nimby-supportive-housing-imperfect-paradise\">read LAist’s full story\u003c/a>, going back to 2018.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And YouTube’s \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en&ref_topic=9282436\">community guidelines\u003c/a> don’t always stop certain channels from spreading harmful content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED brought one such video in Vietnamese to YouTube’s attention. It was from a channel with more than 96,000 subscribers which has been suspended twice for violating YouTube’s content guidelines. YouTube didn’t remove the video from its website because a spokeswoman said it didn’t violate its guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nick Nguyen, a board member with PIVOT and a writer for Viet Fact Check, worries the video still spreads harmful misinformation. He argues YouTube’s promise to combat misinformation takes a back seat to its monetization of popular channels, especially when the channels operate in languages other than English. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are responsive to our small community, then they will have to spend time and money on other groups who fairly ask, ‘Why aren’t you taking down this content in Farsi or Spanish?’ ” Nick Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cultural Brokers in a Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the absence of effective misinformation control, a number of young Vietnamese Americans have been taking matters into their own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Lai in Connecticut started an Instagram account called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/viet.fake.news.buster/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viet Fake News Buster\u003c/a>, where he \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdvek4hxtX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pinpoints parts of YouTube videos\u003c/a> that spread misinformation and encourages his followers to flag the videos for YouTube to take down. In Southern California, young Vietnamese American volunteers translate news articles from English into Vietnamese for \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-interpreter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Interpreter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/christina-johnson-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Christina Johnson, secretary for the Vietnamese American Roundtable, felt resources on the pandemic provided by local health officials weren't understandable to her community. So she created resources herself.\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/christina-johnson-1.jpeg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/christina-johnson-1-160x160.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Johnson, secretary for the Vietnamese American Roundtable, thought resources on the pandemic provided by local health officials weren’t understandable to her community. 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"content": "\u003cp>The East Hollywood neighborhood surrounding Kingsley Elementary School in Los Angeles was hit hard by COVID-19. So when Karina Salazar, the school’s principal, began planning for her campus to reopen for in-person learning this month, she knew families would be nervous about sending their children back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thought if she could offer students the chance to be outdoors for part of the day, it might alleviate some concern for both parents and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nick Melvoin, LAUSD board member\"]'I think we've been dead set in our ways on what a classroom should look like, going back to when many of us were kids.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar is not new to outdoor education. Prior to the pandemic, the school created a native plant and organic vegetable garden, complete with a chicken coop. Students did science units there, and relished the opportunity to care for the school's roosters, Roy and Al, Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Salazar wanted to go further, and with support from experts in outdoor learning, Kingsley Elementary — which reopens for in-person learning on Monday — is piloting a program that will do just that. With four brand new nature classrooms set up atop the asphalt playground space, teachers will be able to sign up to bring their students outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kingsley’s new outdoor setup comes as the Los Angeles Unified School District pushes to expand outdoor learning options. The school board \u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=4466&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=105264&PageID=1\">just approved a resolution \u003c/a>that calls for more funding and resources to grow existing outdoor education programs like the two nature-based camps it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2739-scaled-e1618864768577.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11870070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2739-scaled-e1618864768577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shaded outdoor classroom set up at Kingsley Elementary. \u003ccite>(Deepa Fernandes/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet, few other schools in the district are so far following Kingsley's lead. Nick Melvoin, an LAUSD board member, hopes that will change with the new resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think it's a failure of imagination,” Melvoin said. “I think we've been dead set in our ways on what a classroom should look like, going back to when many of us were kids ... and it's a classroom with desks and with walls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In LAUSD schools, only about 40% of elementary school students are opting to return to in-person classes, according to a district spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that had we done a better job of setting up these outdoor classrooms, we actually could have opened schools earlier than we are now,” Melvoin said. “Even schools where we haven't been able to do the work of putting in gardens or grass, even if we're converting a blacktop by putting in a tent and adaptive seating, we could fit more students in, and that would mitigate the need for an AM and a PM session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Walls\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kingsley's outdoor classrooms have no walls. Instead, the boundaries are marked by planted shrubs. Traditional plastic bucket seats have been replaced with wicker armchairs and tree stumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will rotate between their regular inside classrooms and the outdoor spaces when the school reopens for in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By establishing the conditions where teachers can be outside with their students and have an outdoor classroom that provides that sense of openness, it adds that additional layer of security,” Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classrooms that Salazar and her staff built, with support from Green Schoolyards America, are little nature hubs. Two classrooms have natural toned desks and stools with a wicker armchair for the teacher, a setup more redolent of college than your typical elementary school. Another classroom uses a bed of mulch to form the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2749-scaled-e1618864874179.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11870071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2749-scaled-e1618864874179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingsley Elementary School Principal Karina Salazar sits at a handmade wooden desk created and donated by a local carpenter. There will be 12 of these desks in this outdoor classroom, which has a mulch floor and sage shrubs in planters to demarcate its boundaries. \u003ccite>(Deepa Fernandes/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All the outside classrooms have large wooden or aluminum planters with fragrant shrubs to demarcate the room’s boundaries. There are also bright colored woolen rugs atop the mulch or asphalt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donations flowed in to help build out Kingsley's classrooms. A local arboretum gave dozens of tree stumps that will be used as seats for small group work or reading circles under the shade. For the mulch-floor classroom, a local carpenter, Arnold Bautista, made by hand 12 vintage-style wooden desks with built-in seats. LAUSD delivered two big event tents to shade one classroom and the outdoor teacher lounge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claire Latané, a Cal Poly Pomona landscape design professor, was part of the school’s outdoor classroom design team. Outdoor classrooms have so many benefits, she believes, in addition to offering heightened safety against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points to a recent master’s\u003ca href=\"http://broncoscholar.library.cpp.edu/handle/10211.3/213384\"> thesis on the topic\u003c/a>, which found that when teachers being observed took their classes outside for just two 30-minute sessions a week for 12 weeks, many students who had been struggling bounced back.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Teacher Prep\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Salazar knew her staff would need support to transition to teaching outdoors. “Our school team spent a whole weekend in professional development sessions by grade span so we could really customize the content,” Salazar said. An upcoming training will address behavior and classroom management in outdoor environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buy-in from teachers was also crucial, Salazar said. After surveying her teachers early on, she found strong support for the idea of spending some part of the day teaching outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not being forced on them, it's really an element of choice and teacher empowerment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2738-1-scaled-e1618864941421.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11870069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2738-1-scaled-e1618864941421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingsley Elementary School's vegetable garden. \u003ccite>(Deepa Fernandes/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, as teachers return to campus and see the new classrooms set up in the playground, the excitement is palpable, Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so excited about this,” said second grade teacher Anna Maschek as she walked through the classrooms for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"school-reopening\"]Her colleague, Dennis Staine, said his students will love attending class outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially with COVID and everything, allowing the kids to be outside, allowing them to see, to smell, to touch, to hear all these things that they haven't really been able to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Outside Learning in the OC\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another elementary school, in Orange County, is using its outdoor space to get as many students as possible back on campus for the full school day, four days a week. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.journeyschool.net/about/\">the Journey School\u003c/a>, a charter school in Aliso Viejo, kindergarten through second grade classes have already been back in person since November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school had full-time outdoor kindergarten classrooms long before the pandemic hit. In the Waldorf-inspired play-based program, outdoor learning spaces are strategically set up to facilitate different kinds of learning: the children garden, they build with random pieces of wood, they cook and they paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A peek into Adam Kilcollins' first grade classroom reveals a unique setup, one that school Executive Director Gavin Keller says has helped keep everyone healthy, even through the winter COVID-19 spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2572-scaled-e1618865021242.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11870067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/converted-IMG_2572-scaled-e1618865021242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raz Allen, a teaching aide, helps students sitting at outside tables at the Journey School in Aliso Viejo. \u003ccite>(Deepa Fernandes/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kilcollins’ class is divided into three groups. One cohort is sitting 6 feet apart on long picnic tables under tent canopies just outside the door to their indoor classroom. Another cohort is inside the classroom with Kilcollins. A third group, whose families have opted to keep them home, are participating remotely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every two days, the inside and outside groups switch places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent math class, Kilcollins kept an eye on his “outside friends” through his classroom windows, frequently swiveling his head to see his inside students, all while monitoring his laptop and document camera at a standing desk to keep track of kids at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, the Journey School director, says his teachers are juggling a lot, but have really seemed to embrace this method. And parents, he adds, love that their kids can be back almost full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school also provides a teaching aide to help children sitting outside. And while they have their laptops open to hear Kilcollins’ Zoom lesson, they are using pencil and paper to do the actual work, reducing the amount of screen time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some challenges in having an outdoor classroom,” Keller said, noting that weather is a big one. “We had a storm three weeks ago that came through that was fairly significant and we were unable to offer that instruction outdoors. 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