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Torn
Artist: Amber Wood
Collage, June 2020
Without community, I often feel torn, frayed, and picked apart, often by my own hands. From a collage prompt using only torn papers for #WeRockPaperScissors
Collage, June 2020
Without community, I often feel torn, frayed, and picked apart, often by my own hands. From a collage prompt using only torn papers for #WeRockPaperScissors

Artist/ Kichwa Photographer: Eli Farinango

Artist: Sobia Mahmood

A Place Far From Me
Poem
Artist: Sobia Mahmood
Artist: Sobia Mahmood

Artist: Sobia Mahmood

The Tree and the Shrubs
Poem
Artist: Sobia Mahmood
Artist: Sobia Mahmood

Icy Undertone
Artist: Rucha Patel

Light Fun
Artist: Rucha Patel

Stranger
Artist/Musician: Rafay Ahmad
"I focused on meshing different styles of beats and music together in this song, the transitions needed to be smooth enough so it doesn't feel like a cut and paste. I had a lot of fun creating this."
"I focused on meshing different styles of beats and music together in this song, the transitions needed to be smooth enough so it doesn't feel like a cut and paste. I had a lot of fun creating this."

PRE PANDEMIC MONDAY MARCH 2nd 2020
"I Will Be Ok Here. Share by @sarahbarnhartthings ✨ This personal mantra found me during a Somatic Soul Coach call. When we began our work together my goals were to find ease and flow in my life. Sounds easy enough, right?! 🙃🤔 Well not so much for me at this stage and the idea of finding that state or searching for that state {or not finding it} felt like more striving for perfection and the inevitable failure that comes from this searching {perfectionism is a LIE but my Virgo self often forgets that}. Somewhere in our work I landed in a moment of ease in my body, in my soma, which is such a rare state for me in my day to day life, when I realized the words “I Will Be OK Here” could be a way of honouring perfection in the imperfection. I struggle with severe anxiety and the truth is that in some ways anxiety can serve us but not all situations are as scary as the anxious mind/body makes them out to be. For me, repeating the mantra I WILL BE OK HERE in situations that are inherently safe allows me to settle in {as much as I can} and do what I’m there to do. It’s how I keep going and keep showing up when so often things are the opposite of ease and flow, you know, like life. 🎢
MID PANDEMIC CREATION OF MIXED IN HAMILTON JULY 20th 2020
After years of emotions I couldn’t find words for and more recently through so many conversations finally realizing I have never been alone in my life long feelings of floating in the middle, never fitting in and never feeling like enough, I have created a new page. @mixedinhamilton A place to meet, connect, create community, share stories and for my own healing. I know pages like this exist and I am so grateful for having discovered them at this point in my life but I wish groups had existed locally when I was younger so I would have known I wasn’t alone. Growing up as a white presenting, Black biracial person in a very white city came with its own set of unique challenges and I didn’t know until the last few years that I could talk about these experiences or that anyone else around me could understand what I was feeling. We didn’t even talk about it in our own family. I didn’t know my own brother had experience similar things. Until last year I had never seen a family that looked like mine represented on television.
I don’t know where this will go. I would love to meet together in person when the world allows for group hangs again. Maybe we can connect over the interwebs. For now I would love it if anyone who would like to, mixed or not, would join me on this journey. Please share your stories and experiences, I would be honoured to post them and share them so we can further realize that we are not alone in the middle. "
Artist: Sarah Barnhart
MID PANDEMIC CREATION OF MIXED IN HAMILTON JULY 20th 2020
After years of emotions I couldn’t find words for and more recently through so many conversations finally realizing I have never been alone in my life long feelings of floating in the middle, never fitting in and never feeling like enough, I have created a new page. @mixedinhamilton A place to meet, connect, create community, share stories and for my own healing. I know pages like this exist and I am so grateful for having discovered them at this point in my life but I wish groups had existed locally when I was younger so I would have known I wasn’t alone. Growing up as a white presenting, Black biracial person in a very white city came with its own set of unique challenges and I didn’t know until the last few years that I could talk about these experiences or that anyone else around me could understand what I was feeling. We didn’t even talk about it in our own family. I didn’t know my own brother had experience similar things. Until last year I had never seen a family that looked like mine represented on television.
I don’t know where this will go. I would love to meet together in person when the world allows for group hangs again. Maybe we can connect over the interwebs. For now I would love it if anyone who would like to, mixed or not, would join me on this journey. Please share your stories and experiences, I would be honoured to post them and share them so we can further realize that we are not alone in the middle. "
Artist: Sarah Barnhart

Questions for Mom and Dad before me
Artist: Rucha Patel

Dear Baby Rucha,
Artist: Rucha Patel

A Breathe and Read Moment
Artist: Sarah Barnhart

"Fleeting" 1/2
"A short story about the reality of a life… with a twist."
Poem: Fleeting
Artist: Sobia Mahmood
Poem: Fleeting
Artist: Sobia Mahmood

"Fleeting" 2/2
"A short story about the reality of a life… with a twist."
Poem: Fleeting
Artist: Sobia Mahmood
Poem: Fleeting
Artist: Sobia Mahmood
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