Another white person recently said this to me, a white lady. And by “nobody,” I think what they meant was white folk The person who said...

“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...

Whiteness offers a kind of belonging—at least on the surface. It gives me—a white woman in the U.S.—a sense of place, a group to identify...