{"id":909777,"date":"2026-09-29T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909777\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:32:09","slug":"volver-growing-up-between-chile-and-australia-amiga-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909777\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLVER: Growing Up Between Chile and Australia \u2014 Amiga M\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">(L) Marcha Feminista 2018. Photo credits: Red de Historiadores\u00a0Feministas. (R) Marcha Feminista 2018. Photography credits: Agencia Uno<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Their unity and collective power drew me in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">It is difficult to put into words what I felt in that first marcha. It was an incomprehensible mix of contradictory emotions: rage, pain, frustration, love, empowerment, freedom and hope. Esperanza that things could and would change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">La Gran Ola feminista taught me that things I had experienced yet normalised, weren\u2019t ok, and that I wasn\u2019t going to stay silent about them anymore. Que de ahora en adelante, usar\u00eda mi voz, la voz fuerte que hab\u00eda encontrado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/encontrado.Soy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soy<\/a> un h\u00edbrido<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">I\u2019m a hybrid<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">I\u2019ve been a Chilena who has moved to Australia and an Australiana who moved to Chile. I feel more Chilena than ever when I\u2019m in Australia, but when I\u2019m in Chile I feel Australiana. It\u2019s as if, no matter which country I\u2019m in, I feel like a foreigner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">I lack vocabulary in both languages, yet I speak them both near-perfectly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">I speak Spanish with a Chilean accent and English with an Australian one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">You should read my diary, it\u2019s a constant mix of Spanglish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">I felt so foreign in Chile that, in an attempt to escape that feeling, I moved back to Australia at the end of 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(L) Marcha Feminista 2018. Photo credits: Red de Historiadores\u00a0Feministas. (R) Marcha Feminista 2018. Photography credits: Agencia Uno Their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-909777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}