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I Am a Mixed Race Woman
Growing up as a mixed-race child in 80s London, the narrative that black was bad seeped into the pores of my brown skin. The racism I experienced was rarely overt, that is not the British way, but it was a regular and insistent knocking against my young identity.
Living Half Black in a World of Performative Allyship
I realized with such stunning certainty that I did not live in the myth of the post-Civil Rights America that, for 41 years, I believed I did. It was like the moment that Neo awoke after he was unplugged from the Matrix. I saw the world I lived in for all of its ugliness and cruelty and I was broken.
How to Be a True Ally to People of Color
Though the fervor of the Black Lives Matter movement and the media coverage surrounding it seems to have died down, there is still ample progress that we need to make if we are to ever live up to our namesake: The United States of America.
The Problem With Asking “What Are You?”
I like to think that we have evolved or are evolving toward a world in which you come as you are, and who you are is enough. A world in which no one needs to ask you about part of your ethnic origin in order to accept your humanity as a whole.