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Project News

Portraying NYC and Beijing-based families that include children with mixed races, ethnicities, and cultures.
 
Aug 18
Part 3 of Mixed Mondays film series is the first U.S preview of Toasted Marshmallows' documentary about mixed-race women in North America
 
Aug 4
Part 1 of our summer Mixed Monday film series is a 1959 Lana Turner classic - Imitation of Life
 
in Ulster, Northern Ireland via BBC World Service
 
Jun 14
11th annual celebration in New York!
 
Intermarriage is playing a big role in changing some of our views of ethnicity - via Pew Research
 
Kids aren't colorblind! via Slate.com
 
Recommendations from GrowingUpBlackxican.com
 
Photographic portraits of mixed families by Yael Ben-Zion
 
A discussion about mixed heritage
 
Stephanie Georgopulos on her mixed experience, via Medium
 
Report back from Between the Door and the Street
 
Join others interested in discussing family history, DNA, and the myth of purity.
 
Nov 16
Part 1 in our reading series: Quantifying Bloodlines
 
Oct 19
A public performance about gender politics, labor, and women's rights in Brooklyn; initiated by Suzanne Lacy with Creative Time and Brooklyn Museum
 
Dec 7
Part 2 on our readings series Quantifying Bloodlines
 
And other comments a mother of multiracial children hears often
 
An open letter via Huffington Post
 
Check out the celebration
 
And the news that it ignited racist responses
 

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