“My chest contracted about a hundred times,
In between my breasts I clenched my hand pulling my skin apart from my bones to let the air
pass through.
My heart began to fail,”
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“These were the aspects of myself that I least wanted the world around me to see, and I had put forth so much effort to keep them hidden. But my last name was a constant reminder of who I was, and where I came from…”
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Through truth, vulnerability, and conversation filmmaker Alisha Bhowmilk dives into her mixed identity through five minutes of intimate dialogue. We recommend watching with no distractions, a quiet space, and maybe some good headphones to get the most from this fantastic piece.
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“Sisterhood in a Pandemic is about highlighting womxn friendships and symbolizing how strong that connection goes beyond staying in isolation. In collaboration with friends, old scrapbook pictures, Polaroids, digital pictures of them with their mom, grandmother, best womxn friends, etc were asked to be put into this series. They also answered the question: what word do you believe best represents what sisterhood is about?”
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Are you a mixed-race up and coming musician or singer? Meet The Mixed Tapes: a playlist, collection, and mix of 2020's up and coming Mixed race musicians and singers. Submit your best songs below and repost our Instagram Post.
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Crazy Rich Asians. The Sun is Also a Star. To All The Boys We’ve Loved Before. These are all examples of controversial mixed-race casting, either mixed-race actors cast in mono-racial roles or vice-versa. To tackle this question of Who can be cast in what roles?, we gathered six different thoughts, reflections, and opinions from mixed folks on the question of Mixed Race casting in film and television. Is it socially productive and ethical to cast mixed-race actors in mono-racial roles or to cast mono-racial actors in mixed-race roles? Who can play who on the big, small, and laptop-sized screens in the 21st century? With the rise of mixed-race representation in the media, in mixed-race roles and not, we’re diving into this question and the many different views that mixed folx have on the subject…
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“Don’t worry about the pronunciation, no one gets it right!” I catch myself repeating this worn-out line every time I introduce myself to someone new. My next sentence will likely go down the route of giving several examples of the strange ways people have pronounced ‘Aisha’. This will likely get a laugh. Some harmless banter to prevent people from feeling awkward when they pronounce my name incorrectly for the fourth time…”
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An Instagram conversation about the question of, “as mixed people do we have a right to an opinion for people of color? A lot of times because I am half white I have felt like my opinion has the same weight as a white person when it comes to issues for POC. “
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“ White don’t mean boring. It just means luck of the status quo, Darker though, That year-round tan might be white girl dream, but elicits white girl hate…”
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“I feel like it does not get said enough that those of us who are only mixed with white can still uphold white supremacy, even when we intend to do the opposite, and often without realizing it’s detriments. What follows is a glimpse into the beginning of my own necessary reflection…”
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We need a graphic designer! This is a scaleable workload but will probably be on the heavier side of most leadership opportunities at MixedLife. Responsibilities include making daily Instagram posts, Instagram templates, and working with the team to create a brand image. Experience in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and great communication skills preferred. We'd love someone who is ready and excited to dive into taking MixedLife’s design to the next level! This is an unpaid opportunity and is open to all ages.
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“…identity isn’t a thing you can see. You can’t guess it from the shade of our skin, the shape of our eyes, the color of our hair, or the way that we talk…”
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“A circle of seven-year-olds is hardly a vicious place. No one would expect them to have founded a decade of lies..”
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In this documentary series, we will be having the conversation: what does it mean to know another language? Topics like defining bilingualism, language validating cultural identity, and learning language difficulties will be discussed! Isabella guides you through her journey to becoming bilingual; while, answering these concepts.
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“Super Bloom, the album is about overcoming obstacles and blossoming into your own beauty. When we go inside, what exists is our spirit and that’s all that matters…”
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“This paint-ing was a release of emotions and triggers. It became an outlet to process and give me a voice. It holds my perspective of humanity embracing change together and speaks the story of love, acceptance, justice and equality. A story of embracing the opportunity to do better…”
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“ I think people just need exposure to ideas and perspectives they've never dealt with or even contemplated. That is the power of storytelling, and why I've always been drawn to it, and why art is an integral part of the human cultural experience…”
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Everyone 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 Trans rights and here you can use those fifteen minutes to read more about this movement.
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“Today, though, I am positive of my identity as a young black woman. I am black because every day I worry about my dad being the next black man to be shot. That one-day I’ll wake up and there will be a post saying, “Justice for Mark Terry”. I am black because taking a jog down the street at night could result in my death. I am black because I don’t have the luxury of just posting about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, emerald black, and the rest of my brothers and sisters being slaughtered and injured daily…”
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“I feel like sometimes it is hard for me to express my feelings fully through words so I painted a poster for the Black Lives Matter Movement. I wanted to tell others that even if you are nervous to share your voice and opinion, there always is a way you can (whether it is art, writing, protesting, etc)…”
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