Allows me to celebrate my birthday
Nathaniel Hunt Glen Burnie, MD My parents are an interracial couple. I am a homosexual young man. And today is my 23rd birthday. Without the...
“I can marry whoever I want.”
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer I never really have thought through what my grandma was saying. I was only just...
So, how did your parents meet?
Alexander Chee, Submitted via Twitter: @alexanderchee #theracecardproject Portrait of My Father by: Alexander Chee REPOST from...
Parents’ interracial marriage seems selfish sometimes
Anonymous, Santa Cruz, CA I’m tired of my bi-racial experience being used as proof of progress… Sometimes I think my parents were selfish to have...
Why Does My Race Cause Fear
Steven, Aldie, VA. I feel that because of my skin color, my race, and all of the characterizations that have been made about both, there...
Black mother. White baby. Didn’t matter.
Christine Mitchell, Reading, PA. I’m a black woman married to a white man but still, imagine my surprise in the delivery room when my baby...
Black with dreads and white husband
Tiffany Yizar, Norwalk, CT. My blackness and black cultural authenticity is never questioned, until people discover I have a white husband. As if his race...
Color Defined, Now Mixing is Fixing
Doug Shipman, Atlanta, GA. The demographic changes seen in the census are at a turning point– race has to change because the categories are rapidly...
Married a white girl, now what??
Kyle Lim, Grand Rapids, MI. As a biracial individual, I learned early-on how to de-emphasize certain aspects of my racial identity depending on who I...
How many people in your party?
Tsvia Tabuchi, Rancho Cucamonga, CA. I am married to a Japanese man for 30 years , and have two beautiful children. Every time we go...
My husband and I won it.
Victoria True, Bethesda, MD. 15 years of my Miscegenated marriage have come and gone. I married a man who is beyond color blind. Case in...
White, Black, Latino, Asian, or Human?
Michael S., Elk Grove, CA. My mom divorced and remarried 3 times with 3 different men with totally different race and had a child from...
My relationship is not a stereotype.
Lauren Smith, New Orleans, LA. Just because I am white and my (soon to be husband) is black does not mean that our relationship is...
White husband, still a Nubian Queen
Kavisa, Brooklyn, NY. My parents raised me to be extremely proud and knowledgeable of my African American and Caribbean heritage. My love for Africa intensified...
White guy (at) black church, met wife.
Randy Nelson, Gilbert, AZ. At the end of a failed marriage, I explained my love of gospel music (my first record purchase was Bobby Blues...
