Sometimes I don't feel like I fit in anywhere.
Hi!
So I'm Mixed Afro-Latina, my mother is fully Afro-Latina, and my father is Mixed-Latino.
I was born with medium-olive skin, dark 3c hair, and afro-centric features.
I'm accepted in the Latin community, but instead of being see as a regular, I'm fetishized as being exotic. It makes me really uncomfortable and makes me feel disconnected, especially if all I see in media are white-Latinas.
When I'm in the Black community, other Black Americans don't really clock me as being one of them. I have to go out of my way to state that I am Black-mixed in many Black spaces because of my lighter skintone. I completely understand this reaction though!
So, then I'm stuck in this inberween area. I'm too afro-centric to be Latina, and I'm too light-skinned to be seen as Black.