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Sarah Karmali: “Being mixed, you're constantly discovering new parts of yourself”
Natalie and Naomi Evans: “Monoracial parents don't understand mixedness”
Solana Baptiste: “My music taste doesn’t make me any less Black”
Pele Newell: “As a mixed person, you’re getting it from both sides”
Malaka Gharib: “To belong, you need to feel at home with yourself first”
Priyanka Yoshikawa: “People might say I’m less Japanese, but I don’t care”
Patrice Lawrence: 'If I read "caramel skin and swishy hair" again I’m going to scream'
Laura Lewis-Paul: “It’s difficult to define mixed people because we’re all so different”
Michael Mann: “Being mixed is like being a middle child – character-building”
Leon Mann: “We can learn a lot more by listening, not speaking”
Laurence Mozafari: “I don’t know where the parts of me come together”
Thomas ‘Hal’ Robson-Kanu: “Celebrate your heritage, but it doesn’t have to define you”
Anjali Enjeti: "Terminology can open doors to understanding yourself"
Mandu Reid: “My starting point was belonging rather than a deficit”
Raurie Williams: “I felt embarrassed to be Black – but I was in the wrong crowd”
Adam Nathaniel Furman: “I feel locked out of a magic world of communities”
Isabella Silvers: "I feel excluded from a community that I'm part of"
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Charlie Siddick: “Being white was the easiest way to be understood”
Nick Eziefula: “I’m a guest, but never fully at home”
Aux: “If I’m not mixed but not Black, what am I? A flannel?”
Daniel Kidane: “I don’t see why I shouldn’t champion my story”
Loretta Andrews: “Nobody is going to call me white”
Adem Holness: “My identity as a Black person is not based on my experience of racism”
Simeon Hammond Dallas: “There’s strength in not being put into boxes”
Naima Coster: “I want to disentangle the conversation from looks”
Vince Macaulay: “If you haven’t got somewhere to stand, how do you build success?”
Dean Atta: “You have to be careful about conflating ethnicity and identity”
Eva Verde: “I write for all the brown faces in all the white spaces”
Claire Yurika Davis: “You don’t have to kill one thing to gain another”
Jacqueline Roy: “If you don’t like Black people ‘but I’m alright’, you don’t really like me”
Ellie Abraham: “It can be uncomfortable being the stereotype of a mixed-race person”
Isabella Johnson: “I feel like I’m not entitled to my whole Blackness”
Leroy Brito: “My identity has never been a struggle for me”
Portia Ferrari: “The Black experience is a spectrum”
Emily Badiozzaman: “Growing up in Singapore sharpened the racism I got in the UK”
Natalie Morris: “Ideas of mixedness are binary and centred around whiteness”
Callum Oakley: “I hate when people ask me where I’m from – I don’t know”
Sophie Williams: “I’m not interested in being claimed by people who don’t want me”
Mélanie Lehmann: “We’re always performing different identities, so why label them?”
Elyssa Rider: “Japanese culture won't accept me as I am”
Ignacio Lopez: “There are splits and divides everywhere I've lived”
Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith: “We have access to places and perspectives not many others have”
Ben Cajee: “I don’t need to justify my existence”
Travis Alabanza: “Spaces that talk about mixed identity are a way of archiving our experiences”
Georgina Lawton: “We need empathy for people whose identities are formed in the spaces in-between”
Banseka Kayembe: “The world sees and treats me as Black”
Remi Adekoya: “Mixed people have long been defensive; it’s time to be assertive”
Andrea Thompson: “I don’t need to choose one heritage over the other”
Susan Dale: “As mixed people, we’re constantly being questioned”
Michelle Elman: “I existed in a space that I didn’t understand”
Nicole Ocran: “Mixed people aren’t always confused about their identity”