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…
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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…
BBC ‘Identity Season’, April, 2016
As we become more connected and mobile than ever, BBC World News and BBC World Service examine how our individual identities are changing. A…
Lighty: What’s in a Word?
By Bilal Khan “Who’s that lighty?” “You’re such a bait lighty” “She’s one of those lighties” Lighty. The girl Grime artists had you believing…
Essa’s Adventures as a Middle Man
By Nat Illumine There are many mixed race artists successfully forging a music career, however few use their music to speak specifically about being…
Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race
By Annina Chirade I was born in Vienna, a place which has historically been a frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. I was primarily brought…
Tangled Roots: The Mixed Race Experience in Manchester, UK
Unique Event Celebrates Manchester’s Mixed Race Families On Saturday 25 October Tangled Roots is to stage a unique live theatre workshop and performance at…
Sunday Poem: ‘Half’ by Olivier Gbezera
Half white half black Half this half that Half shit half crap So this so what Half white half black Half right half…
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