Navigating Interracial Relationships: One Couple’s Experience

Jess is Chinese-Jamaican-Irish-Canadian. Brandon is Canadian of British descent. Race and culture have always been central topics in our relationship and this week, we’re sharing our perspective as a mixed-race couple. We don’t speak for anyone but ourselves, but we hope this conversation leads to more meaningful ones in your own relationships. We discuss:

Jess’ mixed race experience and expectations as a model minority

The importance of creating safe spaces for your partner in mixed-race relationships

How to deal with family members’ blatant and subtle racism

5 insights for white folks looking to support POC in relationships

To learn more about how you can navigate difficult conversations about race, check out Jess' interview on Global TV's The Morning Show here.

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Rough Transcript:

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Navigating Interracial Relationships: One Couples Experience

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You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jess, podcast sacks, and relationship advice you can use tonight. Welcome to the sex with Dr. Jasser podcast I'm your co host Brandon. Wear here with my lovely other half. Hey, doing today babe. I'm good. How are you? Feeling good. We had a weekend away in our nation's capital. A lot of people who aren't Canadian don't know that our capital is Ottawa. They either think it's Toronto or as non-canadians say Montreal. More. Real Montreal. But your nation capital nation's capital Ottawa is Ottawa and we were in town for the weekend enjoying the city mostly enjoying one of the parks nearby Gatineau Park, we did a number of big hyphen and went swimming and paddle boarding. So I'm feeling pretty good to have gotten out of the city. Agree weekend. It was a beautiful city. Access to parks the downtown core not so busy knows quiet. Yeah it was. It was very, very quiet. It's it's a pretty city. They have all the old beautiful parliament buildings in the old. Library, and Supreme, court of Canada and all those things but it is a it's a smaller city even though it's our nation's capital. Yes I would agree but at the real advantage and what makes me so drawn to it even over the course of the weekend I kept saying I think I. Could live in Ottawa is the fact that their fifteen minutes from getting know park, which is fabulous for hiking and skiing and swimming, and exploring and all that jazz. This is my second time and get to know this year I mean I never go there but I had a GIG this year in February and went on some winter hikes but it was nice to be back with you. You do on those winter hikes. Amazing. Yeah. Really. What do you mean because it's it could be. I'm trying to think of the conversion of temperatures it could be sixty, five degrees and. And you're freaking out about how you're freezing cold. It's the coldest day of your life. I know it was much colder than sixty five. It was all snowy when I was there we're talking back in February generally I'm a human heating machine rarely I cold or at least I, think rarely no enjoyed the winter hike you were always cold. So I'm surprised that you felt okay you know what it was I was in town just for the day basically and I I when I'm traveling for work member those long ...