A Mother’s Personal Journey to Shame
Written by Karina Simonson Writing from Lithuania, academic Karina Simonson critically reflects on why she felt having a mixed-race son affords her legitimacy as…
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In Liminal Space Part 3
Written by Nina Camara In Liminal Space is a series of interviews focusing on the liminality of the mixed race experience and the ways…
In Preliminal Space: Notes Before Leaving Home
Written by Oliver Taylor Nina Camara has a fascinating series featured on Afropean, called Liminal Space. At the centre of Nina’s interviews with other Afropeans…
Being In My Body
By Natalia Figueredo The other day whilst listening to a podcast, I heard something interesting about my country. In the black market of passports,…
In Liminal Space Part 2
Written by Nina Camara In Liminal Space is a series of interviews in which I want to highlight the experiences of people who have decided…
In Liminal Space Part 1
Written by Nina Camara Though the face of Europe may be constantly changing, on a social level that change is often not fast enough….
Mixed Race and the Media: Notes from a Workshop
Written by Nina Camara Multiracial people are very visible in popular culture, however, what picture(s) does it paint? As someone who grew up in…
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…
Lost in Otherness: Growing up as a mixed raced child in Eastern Europe
By Nina Whenever someone asks me where I come from, answering ‘Slovakia’ always evokes a surprised reaction, no matter if it happens abroad or…
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