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Kwajo Tweneboa: “Everybody’s entitled to an opinion, but I don’t have to listen to it”
Diana Anyakwo: “So many words exist for what I am”
Sèverine Howell-Meri: “Being mixed is not an aesthetic”
Warren Reilly: “Exploring my own version of my heritage is fascinating”
Charlotte Gill: “The idea that we’re fractional parts has racist beginnings”
Louise Hare: “I don’t feel attached to one identity, I just feel like me, whatever that means”
Sarala Estruch: “It can be frightening if you don’t know how to code switch”
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Maimuna Memon: “Cultural heritage and skin colour are just part of who you are”
Emma Slade Edmondson: “People don’t look at me and see a half-white woman”
Natasha Cottriall: “I feel like I haven’t stepped into a global majority yet”
Narayan Hecter: “I don’t have strong foundations or feel like I belong anywhere”
Lucy Farfort: “Being mixed has given me an inner strength”
Natalie Simpson: “I’ve been referred to as Black, but never white”
Nicola Dinan: “Racial identity is so contingent on time and place”
Sabrina Jie-A-Fa: “Being different doesn’t have to be a bad thing”
Sarah Kambe Holland: “Searching for acceptance from others is always disappointing”
Emma Norry: “I’m not denying anything, but I can’t fully own it”
Hafsa Zayyan: “I always have to prove I’m half-South Asian because I look Black”
Sunder Katwala: “There’s a fluidity to mixedness that I think is underestimated”
Wiz Wharton: “I'm more than the sum of my ethnicity – I’m a life lived”
Joseph Denison Carey: “We’re individuals and should be treated as such”
Alexandra Sheppard: “You’re like a Rorschach test for everyone else’s projections”
Jaega Wise: “I feel as welcome drinking Yorkshire tea as I do thinking about carnival”
Jordan Alexandra: “Why does a white person get to define how I'm seen in society?”
Kaylee Golding: “I believe in love – I wouldn’t have existed before”
Bobbie Little: “Other people decide what they want me to be”
Sarah Maple: “You carry this history in your body – it can be heavy”
Anna Sulan Masing: “We’re agents on the move as opposed to caught in-between”
Cecile Pin: “I’m not half of anything”
Suyin Haynes: “Mixed people aren’t so easily divisible, we’re the whole of our beings”
Jasmine Elmer: “As a mixed person, you’re an ‘other’ on your own island”
Amara Sage: “People always ask ‘what are you?’ I’m a human!”