“Black people drown at a rate 1.4x higher than white people. Which means that the number of Emmett Tills dragged from a river is unequivocally proportional to the number of city planners who kept municipal pools out of Black neighborhoods, is unconditionally derived from the number of slaves who tried to sprint like Ahmaud over the sides of wooden ships when we didn’t even have the right to drown.”
Read MoreFollow Leyla Omar as she explains her thoughts on how to support People of Color in this informational and entertaining comic short!
Read More“Born to a White Mother and Hispanic Father, I had entered the world as a mixed child. Since then I have often found myself caught between worlds, and lost in translation. Questioning who I am and how my gender identity and cultures collide…”
Read MoreEveryone has a free fifteen minutes of their day, and here, we’re trying to give you something to fill that time with, activism. Every week we will be posting our fifteen minutes of activism for a different cause or movement. This week we are covering the Black Lives Matter movement and here you can use those fifteen minutes to sign some petitions, read more about this movement, and take action.
Read More“To a police officer or stranger, I am simply a Black man, nothing more nothing less. Even though my father is Black and my mother is white, I’m still in the same class as all my fellow African Americans. I think it’s very important that as a person of color regardless of your hue or percentage we remember are all still Black…”
Read More“Today I walked around Fairfax to document these apocalyptic times. This is what I saw. Peace. Unity. I saw people working together to repair the damage that’s been done…”
Read More“I am ashamed to say that at 17 years old I have seen so many innocent Black people murdered on video that I am numb to them and I just stare sternly in disgust, sadness, fear, and anger at my screen. I didn’t cry when I watched a 7-minute video of George Floyd being killed. The blatant disregard for Black lives that was displayed in that video was when the officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck after he stopped breathing…”
Read More“…I was all too aware from a young age that when occupying dual heritage, my own feelings of uncertainty came from extensions of other people’s perspectives and labels that were placed upon me…”
Read More“ In this version of the present, everything is exactly the same except for the following: Whereas other races remained at human level, the black race continued to evolve. By the 1980s, blacks had, for reasons unknown, acquired the ability to fly without technological support or any other form of assistance….”
Read More“The dresses that the rest of your family wore? You can’t fit them. Because you’re not really Chinese, right? You’re mixed with white and for some reason that seems to take precedence….”
Read More“For awhile, I saw being biracial as a weakness. I have never felt like I am fully part of either of my cultural communities and the outsider effect has always hit me hard. But, I’m slowly bringing myself to understand that that does not mean I cannot be proud or outspoken about who I am….”
Read MoreRead about Beth Chin’s amazing mixed-race graphic design project and her experience as a mixed person in Chicago-
“Growing up in a multiracial family, I overcame language and culture barriers from a very young age through other forms of expression….”
Read More“I created this collage with the intent of showing the different parts of Los Angeles and Angeleno culture that have shaped my racial identity…”
Read More“…I write/direct mostly comedy and something I’ve noticed over time is that sometimes when people (guys especially) see something of mine and like it, the reaction is positive but in a way where it’s apparent that they're surprised by it being funny and enjoyable in some way. For example I often get a “I actually really liked it….” or “That was actually pretty cool”....Why the “actually”?! Were they expecting to not like it?!”
Read MoreA monthly short podcast that rotates each month to a different mixed student org, union, club, or a group of three or more students to explore what it means to be mixed through the guided creation of a podcast episode. Fill out the link here to apply with your mixed student org!
Read More“ In today’s black and white world, I’m gray. As a collage artist, I really feel that mixed media collages is the only medium that can accurately represent feeling, it can evoke emotion without an explanation…”
Read More“When I was younger, I didn’t know I was mixed. I had grown up learning about “dad’s language” or “mom’s culture”. I accepted both sides of my heritage without questioning it…
Mixed Family Archives is an ongoing social media series where mixed identifying people of color comment on their family dynamics and how it has impacted their identity.
Read MoreFollow Leyla Omar as she tackles reverse rascism and confrontation as a minority in this relatable and reflective comic short!
Read More“That scars of whips have migrated under my skin rubbing under into my tongue until it forms perfect verb tenses so that I don’t give them a reason to kill. This silence, golden like my grandfather, his skin matching the desert, trapped in barbed wire for having half of my face..”
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