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Sunder Katwala: “There’s a fluidity to mixedness that I think is underestimated”
The thinker and author on not feeling a tug of war, breaking the binary and getting comfortable in the middle
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Wiz Wharton: “I'm more than the sum of my ethnicity – I’m a life lived”
The author on the importance of ‘both,’ telling stories from the margins and conversations behind closed doors
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Joseph Denison Carey: “We’re individuals and should be treated as such”
The chef on reshaping his identity, the vulnerability of soul food and belonging from by virtue of existing
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Amanza Smith: “I feel like I’m still catching up to being Black”
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Miquita Oliver: “I was so scared about how Black I was that I forgot I was white”
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Jasmine Muller: “I don’t want to detract from fully brown women”
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Tony Wright: “I don’t know where my community is”
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Laila Zaidi: “This is who I am and I don't have to prove that to you”
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Alexandra Sheppard: “You’re like a Rorschach test for everyone else’s projections”
The author on quantifying the quantifiable, erasing mixes and race being the least interesting thing about her
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Jaega Wise: “I feel as welcome drinking Yorkshire tea as I do thinking about carnival”
The brewer on her close ties to Trini, being the ‘foreign weirdo’ and finding her people
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: “The conversation of what I have, have lost and have longed for doesn’t fit into a word”
The author on mixedness as freedom, the multiplicity of our experiences and writing mixed stories
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Jordan Alexandra: “Why does a white person get to define how I'm seen in society?”
The actor on not living in fear, choosing her roles carefully and the heartbreak of being challenged
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Kaylee Golding: “I believe in love – I wouldn’t have existed before”
The presenter on repping your flag, mixed trauma and not knowing where she sits
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Bobbie Little: “Other people decide what they want me to be”
The actor on the creativity of mixedness, not feeling attractive and being celebrated in both cultures
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Sarah Maple: “You carry this history in your body – it can be heavy”
The artist on the Kenyan influence to her heritage, reflecting on her childhood and the importance of language
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Mixed Messages
Mixed Messages
A weekly newsletter all about the mixed-race experience, with interviews by Isabella Silvers (White British and Punjabi)
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