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HYBRIDITY August 31 2010
Last night, we met up with Jamie (The Jamie Affair) to drop off some CA gear for a music video that she’s styling. She chose the CA crewneck in navy and the Hybridity t-shirt in forest green. The latter was a pleasant surprise for me.
I hadn’t wore my Hybridity shirt in a bit, and when I pulled it out of the drawer, I remembered why we released that shirt in the first place. Kim and I were both students of political science, and heavily studied identity politics and globalization. The world has become so interconnected, meaning interests and therefore personalities have become modified. The idea of ‘home’ and ‘identity’ is in fact, blurred. So that’s why we left that last part blank and released these shirts with a fabric marker, so that you can put who/what your are in your own words. When we got feedback about the shirt, people were putting anything between their ethnicity or their occupation.
It’s one of my favorites because of what it represents. I am a cultural hybridity, I have a hyphenated identity, I am…
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we are hybrid peeps, here to bless the world with our cultural diversity! ”