If you don’t know my origin story, I was born in Trinidad, one half of the twin island Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. As a tall girl who looked older for her age, by the time I was 10 years old I felt exposed. The looks and comments from older members of the...
Some months ago, I reached out to the Choi Family to take part in my mixed Heritage Family Life series. As a family with Blasian children like myself, I wondered if there were any similarities between my south England experience to theirs in middle England? This is...
Some months ago a friend sent me a video featuring mixed race young adults talking about their racial identity and prejudices they’ve experienced. I sent the video to my American cyber friend Nikki. Like myself, Nikki has a Blasian son. We got to talking about our...
Chelsea is my sister from another mother. If you have been following my journey over the years you will have seen her name pop up from time to time. She’s cut my hair. She’s taken pregnancy photos of me. We’ve baby sat for each other and cried of...
Some months ago, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and I came across the account Abby & Izzy, ‘Sisterhood of the Travelling Ankara’. I loved the name and their photos were so joyous! I reached out to their mum for an interview to talk about...
