Multiracial Family Man

Ep. 22: Multiracial actress Jennifer Frappier (http://www.jenniferfrappier.com/), is also the Producer and Event Planner for the Mixed Remixed Festival (http://www.mixedremixed.org/), as well as an advocate for egg-freezing (http://www.chillthedocumentary.com/).

Listen as Jen talks about growing up as a multiracial person in Virginia in the 70s and 80s, about the racial issues that arose during her childhood, and about the racial issues that continue to confront her as she makes her way in her acting career. In addition, Jen speaks with Alex about the growth of the Mixed-Remixed Festival and how it's become a haven for multiracial people. Finally, check out their conversation about egg freezing, which is becoming more and more of an issue as women delay childbirth until later in life.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 21: Multiracial family advocate and creator of Yogasteya (yoga for all shapes, sizes and abilities - http://yogasteya.com/), Dianne Bondy (http://diannebondyyoga.com/), talks about her own multiracial family (she's Black and married to a White man and raising biracial children), about growing up in a mostly White neighborhood, her career in fitness training, her battles with body image, which led her to create Yogasteya, and the experience of multiracial families in Canada.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 20: An adoption and mixed race advocate, actress Santana Dempsey (http://www.santanadempsey.com/ ), (a University of Missouri alumnus) is a veteran of New York City's Primary Stages, INTAR, Soho Rep, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and Carnegie Hall. She also wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed one woman show, “The Other Box” which she workshopped in November 2014 at the Actors Comedy Studio in Los Angeles. Santana is an ambassador for the non profit Mixed Roots Foundation which helps to bring awareness to anyone touched by adoption. On March 14th, Santana joined LupusLA by running in the Asics Big 5k to raise money for a cure. Currently, she is working on an interdisciplinary art project called Somewhere In Between (working title) that celebrates identity and diversity.

Listen as Santana talks about her mixed Afro-Hispanic background, her experience in foster care and being adopted, and the multiracial experience in Hollywood in this supposed age of diversity.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic

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Ep. 19: My Family Builders (http://www.myfamilybuilders.com/) is a wooden doll toy set intended to allow children to design and build a family as diverse as their own creativity can imagine.

Listen as the founder of My Family Builders, toy designer, EZ Karp, talks about his background as a Jewish man from Argentina, how he became a toy designer, what prompted him to create My Family Builders, and the Clark Doll Test (and others like it), which inspired and inspires him to make these dolls available to kids everywhere so that they can build the characters and families of their choosing. Traditional doll sets impose limitations on a child’s imagination, which can have lasting effects. MyFamilyBuilders removes these restrictions and opens their eyes to a world of possibilities.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.

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Ep. 18, Simone Weichselbaum, a criminal justice journalist with the Marshall Project (https://www.themarshallproject.org/staff/simone-weichselbaum), talks about her Black Jamaican and Orthodox Jewish roots, about race and criminal justice and about the multiracial experience in America in the Age of Obama.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.

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Ep. 17: Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University, talks about his Black and Jewish Heritage, growing up biracial in Boston, Africana Studies in the world of academia, and the multiracial experience in America in the Age of Obama.

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.

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Ep. 16: Abbi Crutchfield and Luke Thayer, an interracial married couple, who also are comics and actors discuss growing up in Indiana, how they met, and how race and racism arise in their lives and in their work. For more on Abbi (who is Biracial and African-American), please check: http://curlycomedy.tumblr.com/ and for more on Luke (who is White), please check: http://www.comedianluke.com/

For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.

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Ep. 15: Jamaican immigrant, multiracial mommy blogger, and tv weather anchor, Stacy-Ann Gooden (http://weatheranchormama.com/) discusses the multiracial experience, including Stacy-Ann's own personal experiences as a Black Jamaican immigrant to the United States, her marriage to a White man of Irish and German descent, and how they're raising their two Biracial chidlren.

For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.

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Ep. 14: Grace Hwang Lynch, a journalist and mommy-blogger (http://hapamama.com/), who writes and speaks about her own multiracial family discusses the Asian-White multiracial experience, including Grace's own personal experiences as an Taiwanese-American married to a White man and as mother to two biracial chidlren.

For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.

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Ep. 13: What's it like to be Black and Mormon? How about Black and Mormon and married to a White man. Listen as tv anchor and mommy-blogger, Jennifer Borget (http://www.jenniferborget.com/) (http://www.babymakingmachine.com/), discusses the Multiracial experience, including Jennifer's own personal experiences as a Black Mormon woman married to a White man and as mother to two Biracial chidlren.

For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.

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