“When my child is quite clearly mixed-race, why would it be assumed that I couldn’t be one of his parents? I’ve had people assume I’m a single mum, purely because of the race of my child.” Kirsten Abioye on raising her biracial son…
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Family
“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about his race. To me, he’s just my super freakin’ cute kid… but I’ll never be able to relate to how it feels growing up a black child in a white home.” Leah Sannar on interracial adoption…
Wellbeing
“People are uncomfortable with outright saying ‘black’ and using racial descriptors, which is a bit frustrating because we are who we are, and it shouldn’t be awkward to call someone tall, short, black, white etc.” Comfort A Moye on disliking the term person of colour (POC)…