Mixed Messages

Mixed Messages

Ava Welsing-Kitcher: "I’m more complex than the boxes you want me to fit into"

We need nuance when it comes to identity, the beauty journalist argues

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Isabella Silvers
Sep 07, 2020
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Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week, I speak to freelance beauty journalist Ava Welsing-Kitcher. Ava is of Ghanian and White British heritage, and wrote her dissertation on mixed-race identity while studying English Literature and Visual Culture at University of Exeter. Ava’s musings on being mixed put into words some incredibly complex emotio…

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