“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…”
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What’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.
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Follow 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.
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“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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“Hiding by the dream-like word of: American.
It shines like a glittering beacon off the shore
So sure, I stood by it, weary in its warmth.”
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“shared cultures erased, and the lineage, lost. so we surrender to Lucifer’s temptations
for more Money, more Power…”
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“My poem “Ashes Turn to Gold” attempts to reverse the colorist assertion that fair skin is the only acceptable form of beauty…”
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“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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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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“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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“ 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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“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.”
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“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…”
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