Teaching Mindfulness through Feminism and Intersectionality
By Marielle Byhouwer These are the words of my father. I am a biracial, middle class woman. My mother was adopted from South Korea as a baby and my father is white. As a white, middle class, heterosexual male, my father is among the most privileged individuals in our society.
However, as the father of a biracial girl whose appearance was more dominantly Asian than white, he had more personally experienced different acts of racism and sexism that I encountered growing up. It’