Being a Mixed actor in the entertainment industry is a tough job. I’m not talking about the ones at the top of the Hollywood food chain – like Zendaya or Zoe Saldana. I’m talking about the working class actors. The…
Being a Mixed actor in the entertainment industry is a tough job. I’m not talking about the ones at the top of the Hollywood food chain – like Zendaya or Zoe Saldana. I’m talking about the working class actors. The…
Since the time I graduated film school. I’ve been trying to figure out how to be a successful Mixed filmmaker. On the surface, the answer to this question is simple – just being yourself. But being Mixed is never really…
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be a Mixed and be Creative. Both those words get thrown around a lot. But are only interpreted in one way. To be Mixed is to be a person…
To look at me, with my brown hair and hazel green eyes, you’d say I’m white. And I am, on the outside. But on the inside, you’ll find mariachi music in my ears, mole sauce in my stomach, and híjole…
The Blended Future Project presented a special event on January 16th, 2021 which began the foundation of the company: Re-Mixed This online festival featured speakers, focus groups, music, and arts, to build a foundation for a multicultural community. This online…
This article originally appeared on the weekly newsletter. It’s been quite a few weeks for the United States of America. Protests, police brutality, it’s been a reckoning moment for our nation. I attended another meetup for The Mixed Space where we discussed…
Society wants us to conform to the standard and to not push back. And while we talk a lot about the large systemic forces behind this. It’s our everyday encounters that reinforce it. From the strangers we meet, to teachers,…
Being Mixed is Beth Chin’s visual guide to the foundations of multiracial and ethnic culture. This nine page artwork uses the basic elements of graphic design to simplify the complexities behind race and ethnicity within the mixed culture. Due to…
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend a Zoom meeting sponsored by The Mixed Space. Over 40 people logged on a Saturday afternoon to not only hear a presentation from the author Farzana Nayani, but also have their…
When I was growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the late 80s, there were only 2 other kids I knew with interracial parents. There were very few families in our small neighborhood of other ethnicities, but we still…
