Mixed Up

The one where they chant “oyinbo” when you score

Emma and Nicole talk to women’s World Cup star Ashleigh Plumptre about her experience playing in the 2023 women’s World Cup and her decision to play for Nigeria’s Super Falcons.

She took her opportunity to experience the Nigerian side of her culture and heritage while coming face to face with the girls she grew up with playing with back in the UK in the opposing team - the Lionesses.

They discuss learning Yoruba phrases on the coach, the crowd chanting “oyinbo” when she scores, and how young people are the bearers of the knowledge and insight we all need.

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Emma and Nicole speak to Afua Hirsch, award-winning journalist and media stalwart on the fight for collective liberation, why the struggle is an undeniable part of us and how we need to lean into it to find home.

Afua discusses the diasporic phenomenon of feeling the link to your culture is precarious, finding your mission, liberating us from our ideas of imperfection because we are mixed, and that discomfort leads to insight and energy to tackle the systems of oppression we live under. 

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Emma and Nicole speak to bestselling author, TV presenter, agony aunt, and style guru Candice Brathwaite. She is considered one of our modern day icons and has recently released her first YA fiction book, Cuts Both Ways.

Candice gets honest about growth in marriage, beauty standards, financial stability equating to freedom, and identity beyond parenthood. We discuss her new book, Cuts Both Ways, and its themes of Black love, friendship and growing up as a Black British teen.

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Cuts Both Ways: https://amzn.to/3fOHYRQ 

With thanks to room2 hometels Chiswick for our recording space: https://www.instagram.com/room2hometels/ 

Emma and Nicole speak to bestselling author, TV presenter, agony aunt, and style guru Candice Brathwaite. She is considered one of our modern day icons and has recently released her first YA fiction book, Cuts Both Ways.

Candice spills the tea on the aftermath of being bullied publicly online, being relegated to the sidelines of conversations she began, gives advice on boundary setting and protecting your peace. We discuss her new book, Cuts Both Ways, and its themes of Black love, friendship and  growing up as a Black British teen.

Preorder our book The Half Of It: https://amzn.to/3rDq1qo
Website: https://www.mixedup.co.uk/ 
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mixeduppodcast
Instagram: https://instagram.com/mixedup.podcast
Candice Brathwaite: https://www.instagram.com/candicebrathwaite/ 
Cuts Both Ways: https://amzn.to/3fOHYRQ 

With thanks to room2 hometels Chiswick for our recording space: https://www.instagram.com/room2hometels/ 

The one where we see how the racism against mixed race people is part of our history

In honour of Black History Month, Emma and Nicole speak to Rosemary Adaser, the founder and former CEO of the Association of Mixed-Race Irish. Rosemary was a member of the Collaborative Forum on Mother and Baby Homes, and campaigned to ensure the commission examined the experiences of children who had Irish mothers and fathers of colour, highlighting to the world the damning evidence of abuse that took place in Irish mother and baby institutions when these children were abandoned and handed over to the state. 

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Rosemary Adaser: https://twitter.com/mixedraceirish 
The Association of Mixed-Race Irish: https://www.mixedraceirish.ie/ 

Culture mix: 
Searching For Our Other Mam: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bn33

The one where everything is intersectional

Emma and Nicole speak to Tori Tsui, a Bristol-based climate activist, speaker and consultant from Hong Kong. She is the co-founder of the space Bad Activist Collective and a member of the climate coalition Unite For Climate Action. She sailed across the Atlantic with the thinktank Sail to the COP25 and work is centered around climate justice and making sure that climate policy, action and organising is intersectional, inclusive and transformative. Her debut book 'It's Not Just You', exploring the intersections between mental health and the climate crisis will be out in summer 2023.

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Culture mix:
https://shado-mag.com/ 
https://www.besean.co.uk/ 

The one where we are Black flamingos 

Nicole is solo this week speaking to Dean Atta, an author, writer and poet from London who is of Greek Cypriot and Caribbean heritage. His award-winning YA book, The Black Flamingo, is a moving coming of age story published in 2019 with inspiration drawn from Dean’s life and experiences coming of age as a mixed-race teenage boy. His latest YA book is called Only On The Weekend following the love story of Mack and Karim and Finlay and his new poetry collection, There is (still) love here, is out in September 2022. We spoke about being solid in our identities, telling Black queer stories and the importance of collecting stories from our elders

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Culture mix:
Jordan Stephens and Beth Suzanna's The Missing Piece: https://amzn.to/3qSC98r

The one where we are both not half 

Emma and Nicole speak to British-Punjabi actor, writer and filmmaker, Jassa Ahluwalia. He created the hashtag and online movement, #BothNotHalf, which he uses to explore mixed identity and his own British-Indian heritage, and is currently developing into a book. 

We spoke about the casting process and how that has changed for mixed actors and specific roles for mixed people, drawing on your heritage as a performer, how language shapes identity, and the history of national identity.

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Jassa's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialjassa/ 

Culture mix:
The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner by John Keay
Alero Art: https://www.instagram.com/aleroart_/ 
Chasing Hares at The Young Vic

The one where we have to trust we know our bodies best

Emma and Nicole speak to Nina Lopes, a menswear designer, dancer, and mother behind the account @frodayss. Just before she turned 37, she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer - an aggressive type of cancer which spreads quickly. She is currently at stage four. We spoke to Nina about her mixed heritage, being ignored by medical professionals, her diagnosis, parenting, and living her life to the fullest as she documents daily life with terminal cancer. 

Preorder our book The Half Of It: https://amzn.to/3rDq1qo
Our website: https://www.mixedup.co.uk/
Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mixeduppodcast
Our Instagram: https://instagram.com/mixedup.podcast
Nina's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frodayss/

Culture mix: 
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/frodayss
https://www.blackwomenrisinguk.org/ 

The one where we push back against our bodies not being our own

Emma and Nicole speak to content creator, speaker and author Natalie Lee for Mixed Up Book Club on her new book, Feeling Myself: How I Shed My Shame to Find Sexual Freedom and You Can Too.

Natalie walks us through her early journey from fashion and blogging about motherhood, her adult ADHD diagnosis, divorce and uncovering sexual freedom and liberation, and how mixed race women are the most overrepresented group in statistics on rape and sexual violence.

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Culture mix:

National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-aDTsZXnKhMcrDmtcD35aWs00gw5piocDhaFy5LKDY/mobilebasic