Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino. Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Carla Molina is a writer with a fierce curiosity and a deep desire to inspire people. She studied philosophy in college and credits it with giving her idea-itis (or being a [...]
Image: Gaylord National Hotel & Conference Center / Blogalicious Weekend I have a little bit of news for you! We’re going to Blogalicious! On Friday, I was contacted by Clever Girls Collective who told me that I had won their #Cleverlicious Tweet contest! Myself and another blogger each won a ticket by responding to this [...]
This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino. Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A #MixedVida Bio & Interview Ana María Gómez and her husband, Richard, have two boys and her lovely step-daughter. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and raised in Venezuela. Ana graduated from Universidad [...]
This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino. Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Tara Villanueva is of Puerto-Rican, Hawaiian, and Filipina heritage. She is a singer-songwriter, polynesian dancer and graphic designer in Washington, D.C., where she lives with her partner, Dan, and son, Kai. [...]
Go Red Por Tu Corazón and Macy’s Join Forces to Drive Diversity in Medicine (DALLAS, Sept. 19, 2011) — The American Heart Association is offering scholarships to multicultural [and Latina] women interested in healthcare careers. As part of its Go Red For Women awareness campaign, the association hopes to expand the much-needed pipeline of [...]
This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino. Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Angélica Pérez-Litwin, PhD is best known as the creative force, Publisher and CEO, of NEW LATINA, a bicultural lifestyle online destination for today’s ambitious Latina. Angélica’s career as a Clinical Psychologist [...]
For mixed families, one of the most important and confusing discussions in parenting often concerns identity. Mixed, multiracial, multiethnic individuals often have a difficult course set ahead of them in a country ruled by racial categories. Where does one stand when they don’t identify in only one way? When none of the check boxes sum [...]
Racial Identity: When ‘White’ Doesn’t Quite Fit Can white people call themselves ‘mixed’? Can they see themselves as something other than white, if they appear visually white? Sometimes, I don’t know. All my childhood, I struggled with that label…the label of being white, but not feeling white, and not being accepted by “whites”. To me, [...]
Addressing White Privilege: Talking To Your Kids About Race This article is the second in a series about white privilege. Follow me as I discuss my understandings of white privilege and how we can move beyond it towards embracing awareness. Read the first article in this series. Often times as parents, we’re taught that there is [...]
A New Biracial Spider-Man! Ok, there’s been quite a buzz lately about the new Spider-man and some are excited, but many are wondering, why didn’t Marvel just create a new Black super hero or a Latino super hero, and why mixed? Why Spider-man? For me, it’s pretty obvious, and it’s not all about marketing, although I’m sure that factored [...]
Mixed Identity & Latinos There have been a lot of interesting posts in the news and in the blog world lately. Many that promote the celebration of mixed heritage and some that make us pause to consider, “What does it mean to be mixed?” This isn’t an easy question to answer and I can imagine [...]
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