May 13, 2021
In this week’s episode I speak with Lili Stiefel, founder of The
Mixed Space. She shares her unique experience of growing up feeling
like an outsider, as a mixed-race military daughter, and how that
inspired her community organisation that hosts monthly
conversations centered on difference and empowerment for people who
fall outside of dominant demographics.
We chat about the power of finding communities that feel like home,
the importance of sharing stories of difference, and how to
cultivate internal roots and an inner state of freedom.
Whether you’re mixed-race, in an inter-racial relationship, have
more than one passport, are the parent of mixed-race children, or
simply a white person wanting to better understand the
conversations that further freedom for people of all identities –
Lili’s work creates a beautiful space to do so!
Lili's socials:
IG: @lilistiefel + @themixedspace
FB: Lili Stiefel + The Mixed Space
Websites:
https://lilistiefel.com/
https://themixedspace.com/
https://lilistiefel.com/experimentalstudio/
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“A land acknowledgment is a critical step towards working with
native communities to secure meaningful partnership and inclusion
in the stewardship and protection of their cultural resources and
homelands. As many of us are settlers, immigrants, or descendants
of those forcefully brought to this continent, our institutions
were founded upon exclusions and erasures of the Indigenous peoples
whose land we are located. We honor and are grateful for the land
we occupy and recognize the ongoing damage of settler colonialism.
Land acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to beginning the
process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of colonialism
and the pursuit of truth and healing.”
Credit:
This statement was generously shared with the Smithsonian Asian
Pacific American Center by the California Indian Museum and
Cultural Center in Santa Rosa, California.
https://cimcc.org/