“Her hair is too curly. The stylist isn’t comfortable cutting it.” The white, straight-haired receptionist said this to my biracial,...

I’m starting to question my grasp of it. I hear a lot of folks saying that white people need to be accountable for addressing racism and...

People like to tell me about my biracial kids. We get all kinds of commentary about them. Often, the things people say are connected to...

Particularly, if you’re a strange adult she just met. We’re grown. Can we have a grown people conversation real quick? Please, don’t ask...

“What are you a brain surgeon?” A white police officer asked my black partner this when we lived in Boston. My husband had just picked me...

She’s biracial, bicultural, and she is perceptive. This little girl has seemingly known about race since her birth — ok maybe not that...

To mother doesn’t mean you have offspring. Mothering also doesn’t require that one possess eggs and Fallopian tubes. The act of mothering...

There is a surface level belonging in whiteness. It provides place, group identity, and connection, it locates me in an exclusive...

My dear white people, you’ve asked, so let’s talk about it. Many a time you’ve directly asked this of me. Other times, it goes unspoken,...