The Mixed Race Experience

Hi Simpletons! Happy Monday (better late than never) and welcome to another episode of ‘The Simple Stuff’. This week’s episode, in which I spoke to Ellie Gomes and Jess Macdonald, tackles the mixed race experience for young women today, from fetishization, to cultural appropriation, to Love Island’s race problem.

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FURTHER READING:

My article from last year on how racism is endemic at university: https://cherwell.org/2018/06/03/casual-racism-is-endemic-in-oxford/

Reni Eddo Lodge’s original blog post, ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race

Oxford Mixed Heritage Society is the first society of its kind in the UK, and can be found on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Homecoming Queen (zine based in Oxford): https://www.facebook.com/homecomingqueenzine/

Mixed Race Faces – London based photo campaign: https://mixedracefaces.com/

Cuntry Living Zine’s Podcast on ‘Fetishisation & Dating as a Womxn of Colour’: https://soundcloud.com/user-394605298/fetishisation-dating-as-a?fbclid=IwAR0DcfPsjuSONS6a18Ca8Pqs81VwI7MWARgoKhfLfmyfJdQCO-o8zq7IdBA

Guardian short film, ‘Black Sheep’

BBC’s adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel ‘The Long Song’

BBC radio programme, ‘My Mixed-Up World’

BBC 4’s ‘Soon Good: A Windrush Chronicle’