Sitemap - 2025 - Mixed Messages
Megan Jayne Crabbe: “Who better to see both sides than someone in the middle of things?”
Nxdia: “You can’t accept me into a society in which I already exist”
Stephenson Ardern-Sodje: “You are what you are in conversation with the rooms you're in”
Danny James King: “My identity will never be in response to somebody else”
Mixed Messages Live is back for 2025!
William Hunter: “My experience of my own race is how it is read to me by other people”
Katie Goh: “You can't live through other people's eyes”
Mixed Messages Extra: Read an extract from Sama Sama, plus win a copy
Julie Lin: “You are valid by being who you are”
Deepa Paul: “I wanted to belong, but the gap was too wide”
Mixed Messages Extra: Read an extract from A Wilder Way
Poppy Okotcha: “I'm stepping away from describing my heritage in terms of colour”
Aube Rey Lescure: “My places of comfort are where I walk down the street and no one looks twice”
Mixed Messages Extra: Win a copy of The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley: "There is so much space, so much capaciousness"
Mixed Messageboard: April 2025
Theo Angel: “To finally be my whole self meant a lot”
Callie Kazumi: “Why did I keep this side of me hidden when it's something to be proud of?”
Mixed Messages Extra: Read a short story from A Beautiful Lack of Consequence, plus win a copy
Paris Smith: “You have to work to engage with your culture when it’s not so permanent”
Mixed Messages Extra: Read an extract from The Portrait Artist, plus win a copy
Dani Heywood-Lonsdale: “Growing up, there wasn't an urge or necessity to define ourselves”
Marsha Thomason: “I feel a sense of pride and allegiance to my Black people”
Mixed Messageboard: March 2025
Helen Comerford: “You don't get to tell me who I am”
Jennie Roberts: “I don't want to look like them, I love looking like me”
Sharada Keats: “I'm forced to think about things that fade into the background for others”
Mixed Messages Extra: “The act of eating is not the act of understanding and healing”
Athena Kugblenu: “I always understood I wasn't where I came from”
Mixed Messageboard: February 2025
Mixed Messages Extra: Read an extract from Bethnal Green, plus win a copy
Amélie Skoda: “My name is my only connection to an invisible part of my identity”
Mixed Messages Extra: Win a copy of Disappoint Me
Johny Pitts: “I’m not grateful to be here, it’s my right”
Karla Marie Sweet: “There’s a lot of lines I’ve had to tread”