Posted in Dialogue, Family, Identity, Mixed, Race, Reflection, tagged children, mixed, MLK, race on October 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Originally published at Caramels on Maple Street
by Francie Latour
Lately, my 3-year-old daughter has been asking the same question over and over. I thought I’d run clean out of answers when she was 2, and she would ask, “Mama, why?” Now, I’ve got real problems, because here’s what my little girl wants to know: “Mama, why did Martin Luther King die?” (more…)
Posted in Activism, Community, Family, Identity, Mixed, opinion, Race, Swirl, tagged census, family, multiracial, race, racism on October 13, 2011| 3 Comments »
Originally published at The Time Is Always Right
by Jen Chau
In the past couple of years, I have noticed a certain complacency that I never noticed before, in my eleven years of leading Swirl. The same passion and the same excitement around building multiracial communities had faded a bit. In the one year leading up to the Presidential election, we launched five new chapters (the norm had been a chapter every year or every other year). People were excited by the energy created by Obama’s campaign, and they were motivated and eager to be a part of creating supportive and inclusive multiracial communities. (more…)
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’.
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’.
Posted in Family, Identity, Mixed, Race, Reflection, tagged childhood, family, identity, interracial, multiracial, race on June 16, 2011| 4 Comments »
by Anita Gill
When I was a little girl, I had a crush on a particular boy in my grade. I told my mom that I liked him because I felt I could tell her anything. She asked me, “Why do you like H—?”
swirlinc.wordpress.com 