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“Why are you trying to be black when you’re red?”
by Guest Contributor Jessica Yee The whole “acting black” label isn’t an unheard one in really any community these days, but I’ve always thought it was an interesting one to hear in my own community,...
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Aspiring to whiteness
by Guest Contributor Tanglad, originally published at Tanglad As we celebrated the eve of November 4th, I was struck by a comment from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. He pointed out with pride the...
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Gran Torino and Hmong Gangs in the Midwest
by Guest Contributor Joanna Eng In Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood plays a bitter old man who’s basically the only white person left in a run-down neighborhood somewhere in the Midwest. He (reluctantly, at...
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Sundance Interview: Cherien Dabis, Director of Amreeka
by Guest Contributor Melissa Silverstein, orginally published at Women and Hollywood Cherien Dabis is having one of those dreamlike weeks. She was named one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch in 2009,...
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Look Twice
by Guest Contributor Joseph Shahadi, also published at VSthePomegranate A few months ago, I got into a fistfight on the subway. I was coming home from work and it was packed. There was this gawky...
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Questions and Answers
by Guest Contributor Neesha Meminger A couple of weeks ago I had the Toronto launch of my novel, Shine, Coconut Moon. I prepared myself in the usual way, going over what I would read, how I would...
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Tuesday Nitpicking: Mixed Race People and the Language of Fractions
By Deputy Editor Thea Lim The other day I was having a drink with a friend, when he began describing a woman he was interested in. “She’s half Japanese,” he said. “Half Japanese?” I said, “She doesn’t...
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Black AND Asian (and Jewish?)
by Guest Contributor CVT, originally published at Choptensils I meant to write this post a long time ago – kept saying that I would – but it just didn’t happen, finally fell on the back-burner....
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Kinkosis [Essay]
by Guest Contributor Safa Samiezade’-Yazd, Special to Racialicious Hard to believe, but I was born bald. Not cute little peach-fuzz bald. Not skinhead bald with a chance of stubble. No, I was born with...
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Exotic Taboo [Love, Anonymously]
by Guest Contributor Tiara the Merch Girl I often feel that I’m not taken seriously as a full well-rounded nuanced person when it comes to things related to eroticism, burlesque, sexuality, queerness,...
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Mixed? Jean Toomer’s Cane and Questions of Identity
by Latoya Peterson Who exactly is Jean Toomer? Scholars, academics, and American literature buffs know him as the author of Cane, one of the landmark works to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance. And...
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Interracial Dating – The Outside the Constructs Panel (1 of 2)
Welcome to the Outside of the Constructs panel. This one is a little strange as compared to the others. Originally, this was to be the panel for Indigenous people, but then I expanded it to include...
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On Interracial Dating – The Outside of the Constructs Panel (2 of 2)
Welcome back to the Outside of the Constructs panel on Interracial Dating. Our panelists are: Cecelia, friend of the blog and blogger at Anishinaabekwe; Julie, friend of Cecelia; Brandann, friend of...
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Neither Black Man Nor Black Woman: Living On The Outside
By Guest Contributor Toi S., cross-posted from The Scavenger I have been grappling with the intersection of gender identity and race lately. I feel as if the concept of gender is entrenched in the...
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Modern Love In Mumbai’s “Wild West”: A Critique Of Orientalist Fantasies In...
by Guest Contributor Aditi Surie von Czechowski Recently, the New York Times has been beefing up its coverage on India. Presumably, there is no quality journalism about India that isn’t produced by an...
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Solidarity is for white women and Asian people are funny
By Guest Contributor Lindsey Yoo: originally published at Filthy Freedom Disclaimer: The discussion of inclusivity and solidarity is relevant to many constituencies in different ways; this is my...
View ArticleThe SDCC Files: Breaking Barriers: Transgender Trends in Popular Culture
[View the story “Breaking Barriers: Transgender Trends in Popular Culture” on Storify] Top image from Transposes, by Dylan Edwards The post The SDCC Files: Breaking Barriers: Transgender Trends in...
View ArticleLink Love: ‘Our Brownness Does Not Belong Here’
An amazingly layered and nuanced long-read from Adnan Khan seeks to answer the question “How Brown should a Brown person be?” His prose strings together the all the stars of racial interactions and...
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