Bennie
“If I had a penny for every person who ever said to me 'you look exotic' or 'you look ethnically ambiguous' I would be financially stable”
Soul
“I’ve been called exotic, foreign (despite being born in the U.S), a tiger, and so many other strange things.”
Sunya
“The colorism definitely took place in my 'desexualization' and being equated with masculinity which definitely affected who I am today.”
Max
“I’m half white and Filipino. People just see me as white or even Mexican sometimes and the media probably sees me as white.”
Victoria
“Strangely enough I identify and relate to Chinese representation so much more than white because, I don’t know, I guess sometimes I forget that I am white.”
Veronica
“There is a general engrained hatred of black people in Mexican culture which made growing up hard because I wanted so badly to fit in to my Mexican heritage, but it angered people and made it hard for me to feel fully a part of it.”
Milla
“I see people who want to just pick and choose their baby’s race like it’s a game, and not a real person who’s going to have to grapple with their racial identity and the intricacies that come with it.”
Briana
“Ever since I began to embrace my natural curls, people began to ask me about my ethnicity.”
Ashely
"i am a mutt."
Isa
"I included a picture with me and my mom because I was gonna talk about how I look pretty different from her."
Julia
Johans
Leila
Destinee
Alexa
Ben
Jaliyah
Halle
Nolan
Darcy
"Many biracial adults are fetishized, alienated, unrepresented yet because the experience is so diverse the topic is rarely broached. I wanted to thank you for viewing this website."