I'm a biracial girl with no biracial friends. I created a journal specifically to meet other biracials so we can all discuss our experiences, opinions etc. It'll cover a lot of topics that most biracials have to deal with at one time or another. Please add me and let's talk! :)

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[name] Nancy ( Read more... )

I was going to post this as a response to the "hair" post, but I'll start a new post anyway, since this is a current and on-going issue.
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I finally cut off my hair last winter, cut off ALL the straightened part of it
THEN i went back and straightened it again.
Hair never looks good in in-between stages unless you style it.It's too bad ( Read more... )

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Just stopping by, but will definitely stay, to say that I published my first book, provocative title but serious, They Always Said I Would Marry A White Girl: Coming to Grips with Race in America. I discuss tons of stuff, perhaps too many, smiles, including: biracial kids, dating on college campuses, the idea of being biracial, black versus white ( Read more... )

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[name] Ariel ( Read more... )

that my beloved carly simon is a quarter black!?

Simon's father was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of Simon & Schuster, Inc.), an accomplished pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. Her mother was Andrea Louise Simon (née Heinemann)[1], a biracial[2] (black and Jewish) civil rights activist and singer. Carly was raised in the Riverdale ( Read more... )

Why doesn't anyone understand biracial hair?! To Caucasian or Asian people, you have kinky hair. To African-Americans, you have "good hair". But at the end of the day, no one knows what the hell to do with it.

Does anyone else get sick of people telling you to straighten your hair?