Tag: Mixed

Live Feed from Radio Station KRAZ: Confusion erupted as some sectors of mainstream America struggled to embrace this heretofore lesser-known holiday. Basic Type A people gave the very concept deaf ears and blind eyes. Several of them were treated at local emergency rooms for minor injurie...

Why should you be? This is something that you have never had to confront. This is alien to you. It is more likely that any experience you have with racism is that you were the perpetrator. Nothing as sordid as driving past a black family and screaming nigger at them. Something subtle. Mayb...

The desire to distance one’s self from Blackness as much as possible is anti-Blackness. The belief that Blackness is inherently bad is anti-Blackness. The desire to White-wash your own history in order to not be seen as Black is anti-Blackness. I have been exotified by many and tossed aft...

mental health and reduced coping resources, like not having peers who look like you or who understand your experience. Multiracial people are likely to not have grown up around many people with the same mix — and even then, that’s not a determinant of how you look or your racial identity...

When you share your personal experiences, it’s important to be authentic. Part of my personal struggle being Mixed in a creative industry was that I didn’t think I was enough. If I couldn’t make films about the “Black experience”, I didn’t I was enough. So I false...

Why should you be? This is something that you have never had to confront. This is alien to you. It is more likely that any experience you have with racism is that you were the perpetrator. Nothing as sordid as driving past a black family and screaming nigger at them. Something subtle. Mayb...