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"Stories are always going to be around and have always been around. Because they exist as survival information. And that's not necessarily life or death survival, but more like, sometimes the survival information you need is just to see that people have survived situations that you've been in. Or shared a part of your identity and have just been here before you."
“I began writing this piece four years ago after introducing myself to two white women in a New York coffee shop. The first section came out of me quickly, the following sections, however, took years of hashing out as I excavated my ever-evolving relationship with shame and my mixed heritage identity…”
“This collaboration started as a conversation about the frustrations of working as a woman in the animation industry. When Bee came to me with these designs, I felt so deeply for her story and message. The series has been an extremely important project for my journey not just as an artist but also as a Mixed Race woman of color…”
Produced 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 @AllMixedUpCA to discuss their experience being mixed. Tune in on Spotify!⚡️
“I live in East Ravka, but I’ve never been welcome here because I look like my mother, and she looked like the enemy.”
Quote from one of our articles or a quote from a new Netflix fantasy drama with mixedness as a key theme? You guessed it, we’re reviewing Netflix’s new hit series Shadow and Bone, it’s casting controversy, overall enjoyability, and the racism presented in the show.
“In 1950, my grandmother, Anne Mather, who was an heiress of the steel industry and descended from the puritan Mathers, married my grandfather, Frank Montero, who was a Black, social worker from Brooklyn whose ancestors were slaves in Virginia. This has provided the foundation for my mixed-race identity…”
“Too much, not enough, It’s not that hard to comprehend, I am not one but many, I am the perfect blend…”
“Between examines the struggle to find my identity within the realization that bi-racial people navigate the world differently. Using my own family photos, I cut up and reconstruct memories…”
“I wrote this article, "Does Being Asian Enough Matter?" sometime in early March of 2020. I’ll touch upon my thoughts on that piece later, but after some waking up and leaning in, here are some lessons about mixed identity that I am internalizing everyday.”
Check out this new music video featuring one of our favorite MixedLife Family artists, Spoonuel!