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Mixed Messages Live is back for 2025!
Get your tickets now before they sell out – again!
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Mixed Messages Extra: Watch Mixed Messages Live!
Watch our first live event, plus get your own Mixed Messages tote bag
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Megan Jayne Crabbe: “Who better to see both sides than someone in the middle of things?”
The author and presenter on racial awakenings, finding comfort and leaning into grey areas
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Amanza Smith: “I feel like I’m still catching up to being Black”
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Jordan Alexandra: “Why does a white person get to define how I'm seen in society?”
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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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Priyanka Yoshikawa: “People might say I’m less Japanese, but I don’t care”
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Elizabeth Yu: “All these parts of who I am are revealed to me every day”
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Jack Fowler: “There's an infinite amount of mixes you can have – everyone looks so unique”
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Mixed Messages Extra: An extract from Megan Jayne Crabbe's We Don't Make Ourselves Smaller Here, plus win a copy
"You deserve to exist as your biggest, unapologetic and most whole self. You always have done."
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Nxdia: “You can’t accept me into a society in which I already exist”
The musician on the history we wear on our faces, being grateful for feeling uncomfortable and meaningless discourse
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Stephenson Ardern-Sodje: “You are what you are in conversation with the rooms you're in”
The actor on the building blocks we're given, intentionality and existing in the centre of the Venn diagram
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Mixed Messageboard: June 2025
All the events, TV series and music you need to know about this month
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Nicole Ocran
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Poppy Okotcha
Danny James King: “My identity will never be in response to somebody else”
The playwright on owning his narrative, his layers of difference and being a bridge between worlds
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Isabella Silvers
William Hunter: “My experience of my own race is how it is read to me by other people”
The author on unhelpful distinctions, finding kinship and the clarity of a name
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William Rayfet Hunter
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Katie Goh: “You can't live through other people's eyes”
The author on the myth of authenticity, language barriers and the variousness of mixed identity
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A weekly newsletter all about the mixed-race experience, with interviews by Isabella Silvers (White British and Punjabi)
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