Sitemap - 2024 - Mixed Messages
Mikaela Loach: “We’re not half of something – we’re a whole of something else”
Mina Robertson: “I'm immensely proud of all the parts of who I am”
Esther Manito: “Every element of you becomes up for debate and discussion”
Michele Scott-Lynch: “Arriving in Ireland feels like home”
Mixed Messageboard: November 2024
Emily Chin-Sillah: “This country is so big on making sure you’re labelling yourself ‘correctly’”
Bernardine Evaristo: “You define yourself for yourself, everyone else can go hang”
Ciaran Thapar: “I never felt isolated, one of my cultures was always in reach”
Mixed Messageboard: October 2024
April Werle: “I forced myself to feel things, getting used to those parts of myself again”
Becca Dudley: “There’s less room for mistakes, otherwise it’s ‘you don’t belong here’”
Nephthys Foster: “I cry touching down in the Philippines – everyone looks like my mum”
Win with Mixed Messages’ fourth anniversary giveaway
Mixed Messageboard: September 2024
Elle Machray: “You’re treading on thin ice with your privilege – it's very scary”
Moin Hussain: “At your worst, you’re not part of anything. At your best, you’re part of everything”
Anissa de Gomery: “I feel privileged that I didn't have to feel outside of my culture”
Izzy Manuel and Rosie Okotcha: “Learning about your culture doesn't have to be with your family”
Mixed Messageboard: August 2024
Mixed Messages Extra: Win a copy of Leigh-Anne Pinnock's Believe
Leigh-Anne Pinnock: “With race, you don’t have the whole world on your side”
Mixed Messages Extra: Introducing Mixed Media
Ben Bailey Smith: “As a mixed person, you’re not allowed nuance”
Mixed Messages Extra: Exclusive Radical Rest extract, plus win a copy
Evie Muir: “I found a safe place, but I still have unanswered questions”
Mixed Messages Extra: Watch Mixed Messages Live!
Ayoola Smart: “I have compassion for my younger self and hope for who I'm becoming”
Mixed Messages Extra: Exclusive The Half Of It extract, plus win SIGNED books
Ela Lee: “Being mixed-race is the beating heart of my identity”
Mixed Messages Extra: Dominique Woolf's Vietnamese rice noodle salad recipe, plus win the cookbook
Dominique Woolf: “I don’t feel Thai, but it’s familiar”
Mixed Media: Platforms and Communities
Mixed Messages Extra: Win Looked After by Ashley John-Baptiste
Ashley John-Baptiste: “Being around racial diversity within Blackness was great for me”
Reinaldo Marcus Green: “I'm 100% of both of my parents”
Mixed Messages Extra: Watch Mixed Feelings by Nozomi 雷希望
Ayesha Kalaji: “I think I can learn more, but I don’t think I can become more”
Mixed Messages Extra: WIN Both Not Half by Jassa Ahluwalia, plus an extract
Raven Smith: “I can’t live under the worry that the world is against me”
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung: “I am my forebears and my ancestors”
Mixed Messages Extra: Win Bunhead Bakery buns
Announcing Mixed Messages Live!
Sara Assad-Mannings: “I needed to explore being Palestinian in my own way”
Mixed Messages Extra: Win Bellies by Nicola Dinan and exclusive merch
Keshia East: “There’s so much more to being mixed-race than what we look like”
Jemma Moore: “I felt like I was too complicated for people”
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”
Introducing Mixed Messages Extra
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”