Anthony Sims is a Mexican-American artist who was born and raised in Southaven, Mississippi, but began his art career in Memphis, Tennessee. Sims' artwork has been described as "raw and primitive" by the Pinch Journal in 2018 and "created with high-energy" by the Love and Chaos Magazine in 2020. His work is teeming with a brutal style and energy that lashes out of his diverse choice of canvas….
Read More“The hum of an airplane engine starts, deep- almost a vibration of sorts, within me, singing slowly to announce the start of a journey…”
Read More“When you get cast as white or Asian, both of those feel fine just because I guess I am half. But it's when it gets more specific and they say actually, we want you to look more white so you need to bleach your hair blonde. Things like that are where it becomes uncomfortable…”
Read More“I used to think I was the first mixed race person in my family. That was until I realized that most of the Mexican diaspora is a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry. I was deeply moved to learn that I have ancestors of every skin tone. I often wonder how each generation dealt with being mixed….”
Read More“When I was scrolling through the Facebook pages of my school's Asian orgs, I noticed a pattern. There were no mixed people to be seen. It wasn't as if I'd have been necessarily unwelcome but I knew that it would be awkward being the one "white" girl in an all-Asian space. I knew how people read me. Not to mention the fact that my paranoia told me that I'd be stereotyped as a K-pop fangirl. I told myself that I'd look like a Korea-boo if I applied to any of these clubs…
Read More“As I explore and define my perspective as a mixed-race millennial woman, I use the familiarity of Southern California landscapes and aesthetics to connect shared visual references with the mood of chaotic unrest that is undeniable in our shared historical moment….”
Read MoreJoin the MixedLife team as we have a conversation on Zoom about mixed race privilege and more! Colorful Conversations is our youtube series where we have difficult conversations in colorful locations…
Read More“ This struggle to truly find myself led me to music, and the more I was put down by others, the harder I would work on representing myself through my art, and not my complexion….”
Read More“Don’t call me an Oreo because there is nothing sweet about the racism and stereotypes that have become my life….”
Read More“So if I, a half Black, half Jewish teenager, am trying to survive the dog eat dog world of high school, dealing with my inescapable awkwardness on top of my weird biracial identity, why not just forget I'm Jewish…”
Read MoreThis spotlight film is a view into the world of the multi-talented and astronomical DJ and producer, Sam Kofa. Coming from Ecuadorian, Nicaraguan, and Black descent, these last few months we connected with Sam to truly take a look into his life as a mixed race artist. His music spans horizons of Hip-Hop, Electronic, and R and B; completely embodying his unique sense of style and taste into a new sound.
Read MoreAre you a filmmaker? Interested in exploring the mixed experience? A creative? Make TikToks in your bedroom or have always wanted to run a youtube channel? If any of this sounds familiar apply to the MixedLife media team!
Read More“ As someone with anxiety who tends to obsess over small details over the big picture, having something on my body to remind me that life is short and beautiful is meaningful. Despite all this, I spent so much time wondering if my tattoo would just make me look like another clueless white person getting a tattoo of kanji / other “exotic” Asian wisdom on their body, without knowing anything about its background…”
Read More“She looked at me - with withering love. I laughed. To conceal my shame, I laughed, In that ‘too loud’ way that children do. But inside, I paused as something dropped. No. It fell….” An amazing poem that captures the fiery, cynical experience of growing up mixed.
Read MoreVeronica Brown is the founder of @AmparoModels. A talent/modeling agency based in Massachusetts that represents more than 80% of diversity - with 100% inclusive individuals: from our backgrounds to our sizes, heights, shapes, etc. We had the amazing opportunity to ask her a few questions about her industry and identity!
Read MoreSpoonuel and Chloe Berry are both half-Chinese artists from New York City…Both being Asian artists they recognize and try to lessen the struggle POC artists face in comparison to their white counterparts. They want to keep producing music no matter the disparity between their reach and the reach of white artists.
Read MoreI grew up in the land of Yorkshire puddings in…the particularly white of city of York. My father’s country Laos, a land of food so spicy it made your eyes stream, lay an entire ocean away, a place that was quite simply alien to me…
Read MoreA short film interviewing three mixed high school girls on their relationship with their identity and their perspective.
Read More“I grew up with music as family” A candid video conversation with high school musician Spencer Cook on being mixed and music as a platform of self-expression
Read More…I was a minority in Singapore. The moment I would mention that I was half German and half Chinese, but from the US to a fellow classmate, I was labeled “German”. Not American, not Chinese-- German…
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