The Form
By Daphné Mia Essiet I was 23 the first time I was asked to officially identify my race. The day I had to fill…
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An Afropean Relocation – Cool Receptions, Linguistic Plateau and Relational Epiphanies
The last Monday of October marked my first year anniversary in Strasbourg. As the date approached, I felt a vague dread. There’s the usual…
Nollywood – The Alternative Take: An Interview with Nadia Denton
The world of British Council film curator, author and cinephile Nadia Denton is returning to some kind of normality. She is fresh from the…
Gary Younge and Afua Hirsch: Brit(ish) March 15th 2018
Thursday 15 March 2018 7pm–8.30pm @ Kings Place, London Hosted by The Guardian, Gary Younge and Afua Hirsh will discuss “… some of…
Diaspora Blues: on being black in Belgium and white in Ethiopia
By Melat Nigussie “E-thio-pia!” my five-year-old self shouts out when my classmates ask me where I come from. The word gently rolls off of my…
PASSAGES Series Pt. 3: Returning
Part three of Imani Ballard’s and Kayshon Paris’ PASSAGES, a video series focused on connecting and amplifying a global community of color by reclaiming their…
The PASSAGES Series Pt. 2: African American Cultural Identity
Imani Ballard and Kayshon Paris, young adults from Newark, New Jersey, created PASSAGES, a video series focused on connecting and amplifying a global community…
Life in The Hinterlands; Growing up Gay & Mixed Race on The Isle of White
By Ashley Thomas Life as a mixed gay man seems a singular experience. Who, what and where are the fluid foundations on which I’m constructed, construed and constrained. To some I am black but not Black, clearly not white or not Black enough. To others, I am an undecided shade of, well, I…
Bursting the Diversity Bubble: Teaching My Mixed Race Child about Race
My daughter lives in a diversity bubble and I don’t know when, or how, I should burst it. By this I mean that…
Musings of an African American in Spain: References – In The Mind of a Child
Apart from being a master’s student I’m also a babysitter. Every morning I wake up around 6:30 am, get ready, walk over to Poblenou,…