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Season 2, Episode 26: Mixed And Irish

April 27, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

RECORDED 5/18/15: I really enjoyed speaking with a group of Mixed/Irish writers who discussed the spectrum of what it means to their writing and what they claim as their heritage when Mixed Irish-ness is a discussion that the Irish are just beginning to explore.  You can listen to the episode here, or download the episode from itunes.-Heidi Durrow

murphemail-1-214x300Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is an Irish-Japanese psychologist, author, and storyteller. Born in Tokyo, raised in Massachusetts, educated at Harvard, his life has been between Japan and the U.S., exploring borders of cultural identities. He uses this life experience in his writing about mixed heritage for both academic and general audiences, most recently in When Half is Whole and a blog for Psychology Today. He teaches mindfulness and narrative psychology at Stanford. @drshigematsu

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are you? Mixed and Irish! Listen in to this great conversation! #multiracial

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Clare-Ramsaran Clare Ramsaran was born and raised in England, but checks “other” on forms when asked to define her heritage – or creates her own category of “Indo-Guyanese/Irish”.  She is an alumna of the VONA Voices workshop and is an MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco. She is currently working on a novel about two Caribbean brothers who join other young immigrants to London in their pursuit of love (of the inter-racial and queer varieties) and justice. She blogs for Mixed Remixedand her writing has been published in anthologies in the USA and England, and in journals including the St Sebastian Review. Visit her blog at: clareramsaran.blogspot.com

dylanDylan Amaro-McIntyre is a reformed former misanthrope who finds beauty in the details because the big picture terrifies him. He draws words and writes pictures. He also writes poems, sometimes well. He has been published in various poetry collections and has been featured as a performer at well known venues throughout the Bay Area. On Thursday nights he binge eats peanut butter; he recently discovered Macadamia butter and it is ruining his life.

 

 

 

 

Caroline Mei-Lin Mar was born and raised in the Bay Area. Carrie is a queer mixed-race Chinese-Irish femme who was raised to cause trouble by her radical lefty parents (her first childhood St. Patrick’s Day parade participation involved staging a pro-IRA “die-in”). She currently works as a secondary Special Education teacher and owes great gratitude to her students and colleagues for Carrie-Marwhat they teach Flag-Pins-Ireland-Guyanaher every day. A recent graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and an alumna of the Voices at VONA workshop, Carrie is seeking publication of her first book, Special Education. Her poems have been published in The Collagist, Shadowgraph, As Us, and others.

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Season 2, Episode 24: Mike Twitty, AfroCulinaria Blogger and Author

March 24, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

michael-in-harlem-twoRECORDED 5/4/15: I was excited to talk with blogger and author Mike Twitty about his work, faith, food, and his forthcoming book The Cooking Gene.  He really breaks it down in terms of claiming the Mixed experience through food.  You don’t want to miss this interview.  You can listen here. Or download it on itunes.–Heidi Durrow

michael twitty kitchen_sepia_emailMichael Twitty, blogger at Afroculinaria, speaks with us. Twitty (@koshersoul) is a food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian , and historical interpreter personally charged with preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways and its parent traditions in Africa and her Diaspora and its legacy in the food culture of the American South. Michael is a Judaic studies teacher from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area and his interests include food culture, food history, Jewish cultural issues, African American history and cultural politics. Afroculinaria will highlight and address food’s critical role in the development and definition of African American civilization and the politics of consumption and cultural ownership that surround it.

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Season 2, Episode 22: Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith & Her New Memoir

March 22, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

tracysmithbookcoverRecorded 4/20/15: I was thrilled to speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith about her new memoir Ordinary Light.  I met Tracy many years ago at Bread Loaf and it’s been a joy to see her star rise.  She’s incredibly talented, warm and witty, and nice to boot.  Listen in to our conversation.  You’ll love her answer to the “What are you?” question.  And make sure you get her book as well!  You can listen to her interview here or download it from itunes—Heidi Durrow

I interviewed Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith!

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tracy smith poets and writersTRACY K. SMITH is the author of three acclaimed poetry collections, including Life on Mars, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and currently teaches at Princeton University.

When a poet of Tracy Smith’s considerable lyric talent turns her attention to prose, she sets the bar ever higher.” Julia Alvarez

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Season 2, Episode 21: Writer Jennifer Teege My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past

March 22, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

jennifer_teege_book_coverRECORDED  4/13/15: I was so excited to speak with Jennifer Teege, author (with Nikola Sellmair) of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past.  She tells the fascinating and horrifying story of how she discovered that she was related to Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List.  In our conversation we talk about the book, Jennifer’s upbringing as “black” in Germany and her relationship to identifying as German, and we raise the very difficult subject of making peace with our ancestor’s violent past and how that relates to the African-American experience. She’s doing an extensive tour of the U.S. Don’t miss her.  You can find the book tour information below. You can listen to the interview here or download it on itunes.-Heidi Durrow

An interview with Jennifer Teege, a black woman who discovered her family’s Nazi past. #multiracial

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jenniferteegeephotoJennifer Teege is the daughter of a German woman and a Nigerian father and was adopted at a young age by white parents.  She has worked in advertising since 1999 and lives in Germany with her husband and two sons.  In her twenties, she studied for four years in Israel, where she learned fluent Hebrew.  She holds degrees from Tel Aviv University in Middle Eastern and African Studies.  This is her first book.

“We can decide for ourselves who and what we want to be.” Jennifer Teege #multiracial

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Jennifer Teege Book Tour Information

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Season 2, Episode 19: Mulatto Fatigue & #alllivesmatter

February 13, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

4-ugmonkRECORDED 3/16/15: This became an impromptu show when a scheduled guest ran into technical difficulties joining us.  It turned out to be a fun conversation nevertheless as recurring guest host Jennifer Frappier and I talked about “mulatto fatigue” (hashtag/trademark), what it means to identify the Wisconsin teen shot by police as “biracial” as his family has requested, and more.  Check it out here or on itunes. —Heidi Durrow

Do you have mulatto fatigue? #multiracial

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Season 2, Episode 17: Comedian Alex Barnett

January 27, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

RECORDED 3/2/15: I had a great talk with comedian Alex Barnett who bills himself as a Stand-Up Comedian and Multiracial Family Man. You can follow him on Twitter (@barnettcomic) and You Tube and his blog.  And be sure to listen in.  You can listen to our chat below or download the episode from itunes.–Heidi Durrow

A cool interview with @barnettcomic stand-up comic and #multiracial family man!

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podcast_Alex Barnett (headshot 2012) (1)-1_1Alex Barnett’s comedy is about family, specifically his family.  As the White, Jewish husband of a Black woman (who converted to Judaism) and the father of a 3 year-old, Biracial son, he focuses his attention on the challenges of being a parent in a bad economy and the issues that confront interracial families (including the dynamics between members of the same family who are of different races). 

alexbarnett_familyAlex has been seen on the Katie Couric Show, been featured on Sirius/XM Radio’s “Raw Dog Comedy,” NBC’s EVB Live, RT TV America and NYC-TV and in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and CNN.com. 

 

Listen in & laugh & learn more about #multiracial family funny man @barnettcomic #multiracial

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Episode 1: Natalie Baszile author of Queen Sugar

March 31, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

enhanced-buzz-wide-19031-1396280861-19Episode 1: How wonderful to kick off the first episode of The Mixed Experience podcast with the talented debut novelist Natalie Baszile, author of Queen Sugar.  Listen to our interview here.  And also check out the Q&A that we did for Buzzfeed.  Natalie is still on the road for a few more weeks so check out her touring schedule, but most definitely go get her book!–Heidi Durrow

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Heidi Durrow is the New York Times best-selling writer of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky and the founder of the original mixed roots film and book festival and now the founder of Mixed Remixed Festival , an annual film, book and performance festival, which will be held next on June 10-11, 2016 at … [Read More]

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