“I like to think of myself as a mystical musical siren: come for the mystery of my ethnicity, stay for the lesson about the horrors of colonization! The way I see it? If someone leaves my show or listens to my song having learned something whilst having a chuckle, then I did my job!…”
Read MoreSarah Bernadette is a Singer/songwriter from NJ- her new EP passionately explores being mixed from her unique perspective and is a must-listen. We had the opportunity to hear from her thoughts on writing this EP and about her mixed identity, check it out here!
Read MoreAs a first generation Chinese-Israeli, food has always been an important source of connection to my culture, food binds my grandparents and I. I am growing up in a world drastically different than any of them could have even imagined, but their food is a source of consistency and serves as a connection. I wanted to share a recipe from both sides of the family that has always been important to me.
Read More“My work explores and reflects on my biracialism and the conflicts created from my multicultural upbringing. I was born in the United States and am half Thai and half Caucasian. Growing up, I always felt like I was being pulled in two directions…”
Read MoreProduced by Mixedlife.net, Mixed Student Empire is a monthly short podcast that rotates each month to a different mixed student org, union, or club to explore what it means to be mixed through the guided creation of a podcast episode. This month we’re joined by Berkeley High’s Multi-Cultural Student Association to discuss their experience being mixed. Tune in on Spotify!
Read More“It’s a weird thing when you’re mixed. I feel like your identity is partially how you self-identify, but also how other people perceive you. So then I went through this thing where I was like, oh, how do I identify?” We had a chance to interview mixed writer and director, Sarah Kambe Holland about her journey with her film Egghead and Twinkie.
Read More“What is it like growing up Asian in the sports world? 🏆 What role do athletes play in activism and how do Camryn and Jojo navigate the tricky territory of becoming automatic role models?”
MixedLife’s very own arts network director Kenna Tanouye co-hosted this podcast episode tackling Asian American Athletes! Grab your headphones and settle in for an amazing listen.
Read MoreTia Monet is a biracial, Black and Japanese woman, who affectionately calls her TikTok followers "The Lovelies Gang." Through her platform, she shares her experiences being mixed race, her occasional encounters with racism, teaches Japanese, and inspires others through comedy and art.
Read More“How a lover would water me down enough, until they are comfortable swallowing my existence…”
Read More“It was very confusing growing up. I was raised solely by the white British half of my family and had little exposure to my cultural heritage as a child, meaning I never saw myself as any different to any of my Caucasian school friends. But I was bullied, badly. People didn’t like it because I was brown but I had a white mother, of course I couldn’t understand the problem with it…”
Read MoreWe had a chance to learn more about Bruge’s fantastic new collection, Belonging, which explores her mixed heritage. “As human beings, we experience a multitude of emotions and experiences through our life such as love, belonging, trauma, healing and my mission is to portray these experiences and emotions as abstract images and texts as well as research their meaning with a focus on colour.”
Read MoreI made these collages to explore the blunt and sometimes confrontational way people see and talk to mixed people. The overcurious and the skeptical.
Read More“Is that your nanny? People would ask me on my way to school. Confused and amused,
I would wonder and wander through the elementary school halls…”
Read MoreWhat’s in a name? A lot, I’ve learned. I barely know how to write my Chinese name. There’s a kind of disconnect, a feeling of Other, when I claim to be Chinese but have to search for my decade old Chinese school workbooks to remember how to spell my own name.
Read MoreProduced by Mixedlife.net, Mixed Student Empire is a monthly short podcast that rotates each month to a different mixed student org, union, or club to explore what it means to be mixed through the guided creation of a podcast episode. This month we’re joined by Brown University’s Organization for Multiracial and Biracial Students to discuss their experience being mixed. Tune in on Spotify!
Read More“It is an uneasy truth that multiracial faces force the onlooker to abandon binary thinking, upon which so much of our Western culture is built. Male vs female, gay vs straight, platonic vs romantic, right vs wrong. Rarely do we exist perfectly on the designated poles of these spectrums; most of us live somewhere in the grey, in some capacity…”
Read MoreBeing Mixed is a personal project of interviews and portraits of mixed people by Abi Ponce Hardy. Today we’re featuring Anise, click to read her mixed story!
Read MoreFollow Sarah Turbin as she writes about reading her great uncle’s WWII letters, discovering a mirror into the past where the pandemic and her uncle’s experiences are not so far off.
Read MoreGrowing up mixed-race was a strange experience for me. I never really had any thoughts about my ethnicity and race beyond drawing myself with orange skin in grade two (the brown pencil was too dark, and the one called "flesh" wasn't quite right)…
Read More“Black boys grow like ragged tree roots, burrowing through the dirt to tussle with concrete: cracked: now weaseling through to lie caked on the sidewalk…”
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