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Ana Yi Puig: “My soul has access to two different cultures and everything they’ve fought for”
Sabrina Mahfouz: “It feels like you can’t go down all of the avenues available to you”
Shazia Nicholls: “There was distance with my Pakistani culture, but I’m off the starting block now”
Sally El Hosaini: “I’ve always felt like being mixed was my superpower”
Yasmin Wilde: “I allowed the other part of myself to breathe properly when I started acting”
Genevieve Gaignard: “‘Passing’ is the way others place the pass on me”
Sophia Thakur: “I've never thought you can be half – I’m 100% Asian and 100% African”
Hanna Flint: “When you're insecure in your own identity, you don't need people trying to define you”
Poppy Ajudha: “Regardless of how people see me, in my blood I’m still half-Black”
Nicky Weir: “Kids at school couldn’t understand how my dad could be white”
Jack Fowler: “There's an infinite amount of mixes you can have – everyone looks so unique”
Monika Radojevic: “Maybe that’s the mixed-race experience, the tiny moments you carry forever”
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Miquita Oliver: “I was so scared about how Black I was that I forgot I was white”
Kit de Waal: “Now, I go everywhere as this whole me – not bits of me.”
Jordan Stephens and Beth Suzanna: “I wonder what it’s like being only Black”
Jane Thakoordin: “It’s taken me a long time to swim in that ocean of mixedness”
Sharon Gaffka: “When I say I’m mixed-race, people get very confused”
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Laila Zaidi: “This is who I am and I don't have to prove that to you”
Sherrie Edgar: “We are more than just white and black – we are both, or more”
Sina Leasuasu: “I felt like I belonged everywhere and nowhere”
Niall Singh: “Often, how I see myself has been defined by white people”
Laila Woozeer: “Oppression is built into our language”
Grace Cho: “Shame is often felt, even if it’s not recognised consciously”
Claire Kohda: "I wouldn’t change being mixed-race for anything"
Tarah Gear: “I love that as a person, you’re never the finished article”
Vanessa Maria: “I don’t feel like I connect to different cultures, I just have my culture”
Jasmine Sealy: “Let’s have difficult conversations – let’s get messy”
Soon Wiley: “I don’t have a definitive label or know what group I fit into”
Nina Mingya Powles: “Do I have to explain myself, or can I just be seen?”
Kyle Lucia Wu: “We were stripped of any way to understand mixedness”
Richie Brave: “Somebody’s experience of being mixed doesn’t invalidate mine”
Marra B. Gad: “I am not failing anyone by being Black, white and Jewish”
Benjamin Dean: “There’s endless things I can discover about myself”
Yasmina El-Abd: “I live a beautiful and unique life”
India Brown: “Mixed people are people - we shouldn’t be defined by colour”
Sian Gabbidon: “I was seen as Black at school because I wasn’t white”
Mina Moriarty: “I’ve felt alienated by both sides of my heritage”
Soraya Abdel-Hadi: “People think I’m exotic - I’m from Hampshire”
Nikki May: “I always fail at what people want me to be”
Donia Youssef: “Being mixed has developed me as a person”
Brie Read: “Being different allows me to celebrate all the ways I am”