Something that took me a while to realize. As multiracial artists, we have a unique perspective that deserves to be shared. Our experiences and personal stories can be powerful tools to create engaging and relatable content that resonates with an…
Something that took me a while to realize. As multiracial artists, we have a unique perspective that deserves to be shared. Our experiences and personal stories can be powerful tools to create engaging and relatable content that resonates with an…
STUDYING MARTIAL ARTS This is not a promotion for a martial arts course. Instead, I’d like to discuss a principle found in Chinese martial arts that can be applied to any creative pursuit. I learned this lesson while studying martial…
For the longest time, I always felt out of place. Growing up as a Mixed kid in a mostly White neighborhood, there were very few who looked like I did. Even less who had a similar upbringing. Visiting relatives made…
Every few years, I take a look at my personal portfolio site and revamp it a little. Usually with a new piece of work, or to take a look at my biography. And last thing I always do before closing…
It’s almost like a reflex. Whenever the topic of identity comes up, being multiracial we start to become mathematicians. In the past when I was asked about my ethnicity, I would describe it in confusing fractions: “My dad is white…
I am a biracial man. My mother is a Black woman and my departed father was from a family of Eastern European immigrants. I was brought up to respect and admire both sides of my family and this includes being…
“What Are You?” Being multiracial, this is a far too common question. Especially in America, it comes as no surprise when a stranger looks in our direction, makes that face, and more often than not, feels completely comfortable to ask which…
This article originally appeared in the newsletter. Join here to receive more articles in your inbox. As mixed people, we’ve become accustomed to identifying by our labels. It’s just so natural to say that we’re part of one racial category…
It was the smallest of changes. I had just arrived back in the United States after spending 5 years as a teenager of living in the land of the Danes. During my time abroad, I had often visited my father…
For years, we’ve been told the story that there is one way of being. What we think of as normal, the default, is White. The people we’ve been told to admire, the heroes that we see on screen, have by…
