Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
Image credit: Flickr / [ Mooi ] Well, the year is coming to a close and I thought it would be fun to reminisce and look back on the year past. Here are the Top 10 Highest Ranking Posts from Bicultural Mom for 2011! Multiculturalism: It’s For Everyone! How To Raise Confident Multiracial and Multicultural [...]
© BiculturalMom.com I struggled a lot in writing this post. Not because it was difficult really, but because this is my husband’s story and it’s one that I don’t take lightly. I really wanted to do justice to the challenges that he’s faced, and ones that we are now facing as a family. I know [...]
Image Credit: Flickr / peevee@ds Coping with Toxic Relationships I read a great article yesterday, one that I would recommend to anyone stepping into a committed relationship, but most of all to those in interracial and intercultural relationships. These tips for dealing with in-laws are true life savers if you read them in time, but if [...]
This post is part of a series about white privilege, in which I discuss my views on the topic and how it affects our greater community. Read part one, “Should Whites Talk About Race,” part two, “Talking to Your Kids About ‘Race” and part three “Silencing Brown Voices“. FACT: There are more Blacks and Latinos in [...]
This post is part of a series about white privilege, in which I discuss my views on the topic and how it affects our greater community. Read part one, “Should Whites Talk About Race” and part two, “Talking to Your Kids About ‘Race“. Read the entire series here. Recently, I talked about how whites should be [...]
Special Needs & Stereotyping Children of Color … Sadder still, is the fact that this practice of generalizing children of color as having “attitude problems” or being “troubled” isn’t only related to special needs. There is an abundance of stereotyping going on in the public education system…all of which ingrains this message to brown kids…”you are [...]
This is the first in a series about white privilege, in which I discuss my views on the topic and how it affects our greater community. Read the entire series here. I’m white, and I know I ain’t right. Even though I’m very involved in the race discussion and I would consider myself aware, I know [...]
I recently wrote a post about the controversial video ads in Summer’s Eve’s “Hail to the V” campaign. The ads use a hand in the shape of a vagina to warn women to clean their genitals…or as Summer’s Eve puts it, their “vertical smile”. The campaign also includes a purple logo morphed to [...]
Wow…this ad campaign is offensive on a number of levels. My first view of the ads came after reading a post this morning on Wise Latinas Linked. This is a series of ads that are directed at women in the attempt to sell feminine hygiene products from Summer’s Eve. Why are they offensive? Beyond the misogyny that [...]
[Image: MixedChicksChat.com] I’ve been talking about the ‘mixed’ experience for a while now on my blog, not always being aware that it could be considered mixed, but knowing that our family was somehow different. I’ll often joke with my husband and tell him we’re the “modern” family…the special ones who’ve chosen to ‘integrate instead [...]
Unas blogueras have invited me to join in a game called “Seven” where you tag your bloggy buds and ask them to name one post from their blog in each of the following seven categories. Super fun, right!? And plus, you can get the best of a blog with this quick and efficient sampling…lol. If [...]
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