Here is the transcript from our TweetChat on Friday, September 23, 2011: Naming Race: What others call us, what we call ourselves. If you didn’t get to participate and want to weigh in on this topic now, please leave a comment below and share your thoughts! (more…)
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#SwirlChat Transcript – “Naming Race: What others call us, what we call ourselves”
Posted in #swirlchat, Community, Dialogue, Identity, Mixed, opinion, Race, Swirl, Transcript, tagged dialogue, identity, mixed, tweetchat on September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Raza
Posted in Identity, Poetry, Race, tagged identity, latina, poetry, race on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
When I was eight years old
I was already astute
a smart worm
a perceptive cactus
who knew at that point
that during school recess (more…)
#SwirlChat Transcript – “How Being Mixed Has Shaped Me”
Posted in #swirlchat, Dialogue, Identity, Mixed, opinion, Race, Transcript, tagged dialogue, identity, mixed, tweetchat on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the transcript from our TweetChat on Friday, September 9, 2011: How Being Mixed Has Shaped Me. If you didn’t get to participate and want to weigh in on this topic now, please leave a comment below and share your thoughts! (more…)
#SwirlChat Transcript – Interracial Relationships and “Dating While Mixed”
Posted in #swirlchat, Community, Dialogue, Identity, Mixed, opinion, Race, Transcript, tagged dialogue, identity, mixed, tweetchat on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the transcript from our TweetChat on Friday, August 26, 2011: Interracial Relationships and “Dating While Mixed.” If you didn’t get to participate and want to weigh in on this topic now, please leave a comment below and share your thoughts!
#SwirlChat Transcript – How do you respond to the “What are you?” question?
Posted in #swirlchat, Dialogue, Identity, Mixed, opinion, Race, Transcript, tagged dialogue, identity, mixed, tweetchat on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here is the transcript from our TweetChat on Friday, August 12, 2011: How do you respond to the “What are you” question?
If you didn’t get to participate and want to weigh in on this topic now, please leave a comment and share your thoughts! (more…)
Practice makes progress
Posted in Activism, Community, Identity, Race, Reflection, tagged dialogue, fear, practice, race on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Originally published at The Time Is Always Right
by Jen Chau
In my years of diversity work, I am pretty sure about one thing. The people who are “good” at talking about race issues are those who have practiced.
As a participant in discussions about race, I have heard certain white individuals (not all) lament, “I just don’t know how to talk about this stuff.” And then I have heard some people of color (not all) in turn, say, “I am tired of talking about this stuff every day.”
The Painted Man in: Hair Club (for Boys)
Posted in Family, Identity, Mixed, Race, tagged children, mixed, parenting, race on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Originally published at Color Magazine
Desmond Williams is a freelance writer and JUNO magazine columnist. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, is half of a mixed-race couple and father to a rambunctious, comedic, and inquisitive six-year-old (all great fodder for parenting articles). His writing, with its injected wit and humor, tends to add a light touch to the general gravity of parenting. Desmond is currently working on a graphic novel for mixed-race parents titled ‘The Painted Man’.
10 Ways to Be an Ally
Posted in Activism, Advocacy, Community, Race, Reflection, tagged activism, race, reflection on July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
by Christopher Bowers
As I have gotten deeper into anti-oppression work I find that I am discovering more and more subtleties and complexities than I ever considered. Learning to be a good ally is not a linear education with some sort of graduation or certification at the end. It is a process full of experimentation, humility, confusion, challenge, and clarity. This list is by no means complete. It’s really just a few suggestions on how to turn your mind towards solidarity.
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Biracial vs. Racial
Posted in Analysis, Identity, Literature, Mixed, opinion, Race, tagged identity, literature, mixed race, race on July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Originally published at Comp Lit and Mediaphilia
By Sarah Hannah Gómez
One of the reasons I hate the term “multicultural literature” (which generally means “children’s or YA lit with a protagonist of color, usually with a plot that deals centrally with issues of race or ethnicity) is because it leaves me without an appropriate label for a sub-genre (really a sub-sub-genre, because African American literature should be a sub-genre of fiction, not some other kind of lesser fiction) that I guess I’ll have to call biracial narrative literature. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of “African American literature,” especially books that deal more specifically with the biracial experience. That experience is utterly and totally different from the African American experience or the white experience, and it differs even more if you want to divide those narratives up by whether they deal with passing, with growing up in an African American community, or growing up in a white one. And that’s only three possibilities, just because I’m only talking about biracial people who are half black, half white. (more…)
The Painted Man in: Marriage Rules
Posted in Family, Identity, Mixed, Race, Uncategorized, tagged children, mixed, parenting, race on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Originally published at Color Magazine
Desmond Williams is a freelance writer and JUNO magazine columnist. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, is half of a mixed-race couple and father to a rambunctious, comedic, and inquisitive six-year-old (all great fodder for parenting articles). His writing, with its injected wit and humor, tends to add a light touch to the general gravity of parenting. Desmond is currently working on a graphic novel for mixed-race parents titled ‘The Painted Man’.
