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Jemma Moore: “I felt like I was too complicated for people”

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Noreen Masud: “Whether or not language contains me, I still exist”

Mixed Messages Extra: An extract from Alyssa and the Spell Garden by Alexandra Sheppard

Janine Harouni: “I don't like the idea of being a victim of your own life”

Nadine Merabi: “When I found myself, I stopped caring what other people thought”

Miles Asteri: “People look at me and see a Black guy, but am I?”

Diana Evans: “I think of race as a disease, a kind of an infection”

Mixed Messages Extra: Win a copy of All Us Sinners by Katy Massey

Albert Magashi: “I am Black and I am Eastern European. I can be both”

Mixed Messages Extra: An extract from The Glass Cliff by Sophie Williams

Tillie Amartey: “I never struggled with identifying with one side more than the other”

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Elizabeth Yu: “All these parts of who I am are revealed to me every day”

Vick Hope: “I've grown out of the things that came before me”

Harmony Rose Bremner: “I hold so many interweaving patriotisms in my heart”

Kharmel Cochrane: “I feel like I’m just exactly what I am”

Hanako Footman: “When I go to Japan, I feel held”

Lucy Fulford: “My work has stemmed from feeling a little off-key”

Ashleigh Nugent: “I know what white British men are thinking because I am them”

Yasmin Falahat: “Apart from being Iranian and Turkish Cypriot, I’m a million other things”

Sarah-Jane Crawford: “Pieces of the puzzle were missing, but I’ve never not felt Black”