If you were Muslim, first generation Asian American, or queer with Christian roots, and you were to imagine your life through film, you’d go from early twentieth-century films ridden with whitewashing and villianized misrepresentation, to early-aught films cast with attempts at supporting roles, albeit well-intentioned, likely in the form of hyperbolized sidekicks.
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January Multidimensional Healing
January’s meetup started 2022 with newly ignited energy thanks to this month’s speaker, Owl Rare. As a way to kick off the New Year at The Mixed Space (TMS), the meetup highlighted the importance of having yoga in your daily practice.
Finding Faith Between Individuality and Self Preservation
At the height of twenty-first-century humanism–that is the prioritization of self-agency over the divine–the idea of “keeping a faith” seems burdensome on our path to enlightenment.
Indigenous Retraditionalism heals
Life is harsh on the rez. Residents are imprisoned in a strange duality where the natural world is both beautiful and holy. You are husked with an eternal expanse of robin’s egg blue sky silked with cloudstrands and a clarifying coldness.
December Meetup Recap: Religiously Mixed
December’s meetup was filled with wisdom, knowledge, and “meeting people on a heart level” with our speakers Riyana Zafira Razalee and Rabbi Marjorie Berman. This was the first Mixed Space meetup that highlighted interfaith experiences and mixed religious identities.
November Recap | Indigenous Lifeways
November is the time for celebrating National Native American Heritage month. At The Mixed Space’s November Meetup, we came together to connect and to highlight what life looks like at the intersections of society.
ThanksTaking NFT Auction
What if the Americas (North/Central/South) were never colonized by European settlers? Imagine a parallel reality where the Indigenous people of the Americas continued a life in balance with Mother Nature, where industrialism never poisoned the rivers and atmosphere, and agribusiness never destroyed this continent’s soil microbiome.
September Pop Culture
More than a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, “West Side Story” is a musical essay about America: its harsh realities of racism, police corruption, street warfare, and tribalism. Replacing Shakespeare’s feuding families of the Montagues and Capulets, the street gangs of the Puerto Rican “Sharks” and the white “Jets” clash through dance and music.
October Meetup | Sacred Seams
October’s Meetup celebrated Halloween early as we discussed Halloween costumes and how they have been shaped over time, especially by the LGBTQIA+ community.