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Penny Whittingham: “When you’re mixed, it’s hard to just be without anyone questioning you”
The creator, model and podcaster on exhausting conversations, finding solace in social media and inbuilt empathy
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Isabella Silvers
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Mixed Messages Extra: Read an extract from My Other Heart
This is one of the books of the summer – plus, win a copy
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Isabella Silvers
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Emma Nanami Strenner
Emma Nanami Strenner: “It's all love – it just comes in a different language”
The author on the unwritten rules of Japanese identity, ambiguity and layers of complexity
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Isabella Silvers
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Emma Nanami Strenner
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Gracie Oddie-James: “I don't want to feel like I'm claiming something I don't have the qualifications for”
The playwright on class divides, fetishisation in dating and why the onus is always on mixed people
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Isabella Silvers
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Gracie Oddie-James
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June 2025

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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Isabella Silvers
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Megan Jayne Crabbe
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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Isabella Silvers
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Megan Jayne Crabbe
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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Isabella Silvers
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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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Isabella Silvers
Mixed Messageboard: June 2025
All the events, TV series and music you need to know about this month
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Isabella Silvers
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Megan Jayne Crabbe
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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

May 2025

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