Georgina Lawton: “We need empathy for people whose identities are formed in the spaces in-between”

The author on discovering her mixed-race identity after years of being told she was white

Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to Georgina Lawton, who is of Black and white Irish heritage. Journalist Georgina is the author of Raceless, a memoir of growing up with a white family who insisted that her curly hair and dark skin were caused by a ‘throwback gene’. Raceless follows Georgina coming to terms with her true mixed-…