Family bowls always have mixed fruit
Reigna, Detroit, MI. All families have all types of fruit in their bowl and their family tree grows whats in your fruit bowl.
You’re just a whitewashed privileged Mexican
Mikaela Vera, Greensboro, NC I have always struggled with the color of my skin and the fact that I am a mixed child with an...
What does Puerto Rican look like?
Janet Jimenez Washington, DC Puertorriqueño(a) is the “proper” term used to address a native islander from Puerto Rico. Do not confuse with Newyoricans, or anyone...
This doesn’t make you a better person.
Amy Bramlett, Tuscaloosa, AL. My name is Amy. My fiance Keith and I have the most perfect baby girl together. She’s 8-months old and she...
Being mixed-race is a mixed experience.
Natasja Hirabayashi, Worcester, MA It’s always interesting experiencing how others react to me. I’m ambiguous and that has confused, intrigued, or even enraged people that...
Don’t think of you as Asian…
Dan Ellerman, Baltimore, MD. I was adopted from S. Korea at the age of 3 by a German/Irish couple. I grew up in a white...
No one else chooses my identity.
Natalie, Seattle, WA. My grandmother never got to pass for white. She was sent to indian boarding school. 50 years later, I grew up in...
You’re mixed with that hair, right?
Khairah L. Walker, Montclair Heights, NJ. My hair is not my heritage. It’s been an issue my entire life, people define me because of it....
You Must Be Mixed With Something
Melanie C. Canada But where are you really from? I am unfortunately and surprisingly all white. Ahem, according to 23 and Me: 33% Northern European,...
I’m not adopted! I’m mixed-race.
Julie Taeko, San Francisco, CA. Writing a book called “Good Morning, Mixed-Race America!” to highlight the stories of 12 mixed-race individuals who are part-Asian, millenials...
I don’t know what I am.
Alexis Bing, VA Growing up, people would ask me “what are you mixed with?” They would call me “mixed girl” or “light bright.” I’ve even...
Not Black Enough, Not White Enough
Heleen Moyer, Troy, PA Growing up, being a mixed girl, -also with a Hispanic father that was never around- , I never felt like I...
Your hair is nice, you mixed?
Lauryn Ivy, Chicago, IL Being a black woman in America there are so many stigmas against our appearance. There are so many people with stereotypes...
I’m a bridge between two worlds.
Jazmin Whitmore, Asheville, NC. I am the result of two worlds but I was only raised in one. My father was Jamaican and my mother...
Three months more, would they ask?
Nina Martin Phoenix, AZ I am quietly proud of my multiracial background: my mother is Chinese, and my father is half German, half American. I...
