Amina Gautier

Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. At-Risk was awarded the Flannery Oâ??Connor Award. Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the International Latino Book Award, and was a Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize. The Loss of All Lost Things was awarded the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award, the Chicago Public Libraryâ??s 21st Century Award, and was a Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award, the Paterson Prize, and the John Gardner Award.

S5, Ep. 3: Award-Winning Writer Amina Gautier

Julie Lythcott-Haims

NYT bestselling writer Julie Lythcott-Haims talks about her new memoir Real American about growing up mixed race, biracial.

S5, Ep. 2: NYT bestseller Julie Lythcott-Haims Real American

All the news about mixed race, multiracial, biracial and interracial experience including host Heidi Durrow's thoughts about this mixed-up world.

S5, Ep. 1: The Mixed Race and Multiracial Experience

Janet Savage is the author of Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface. She is also an entertainment attorney who holds degrees from Harvard Law and Stanford. She lives in California and reads a lot.

S4 Ep. 19: Writer/Literary Critic Janet Savage

Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, a novel which won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and will be published by Algonquin Books in May 2017. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, The New York Times, Apogee Journal, Narrative, O. Magazine, Copper Nickel, Storychord, One Teen Story, Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Hyphen and a fiction editor at Drunken Boat, Lisa has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Writers OMI at Ledig House, the Jerome Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, the Van Lier Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, the I-Park Foundation, the Anderson Center, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. Born in Queens and raised in Jersey, she lives in Brooklyn.

S4 Ep. 18: PEN/Bellwether Winner Lisa Ko author of The Leavers

Keiko Elizabeth

Phinneas Kiyomura

We talk about the new play Supper currently playing at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood.

S4 Ep. 17: Hapa Actress Keiko Elizabeth & Playwright Phinneas Kiyomura

John McWhorter

In Talking Back, Talking Black devoted solely to the form, structure, and development of Black English, John McWhorter clearly explains its fundamentals and rich history, while carefully examining the cultural, educational, and political issues that have undermined recognition of this transformative, empowering dialect. Talking Back, Talking Black takes us on a fascinating tour of a nuanced and complex language that has moved beyond Americaâ??s borders to become a dynamic force for todayâ??s youth culture around the world.

S4, Ep. 16: Linguist & Writer John McWhorter, Talking Back, Talking Black

Adrian Miller

Iâ??m a recovering lawyer and politico who turned into a food writer interested in the following topics: African heritage food (especially soul food), barbecue, the intersection of faith and food, and presidential foodways. His newest book is The President's Kitchen Cabinet: African-Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamas.

S4, Ep. 15: Award-winning Writer & Soul Food Scholar Adrian Miller

Maria Olsen

Maria Leonard Olsen is a biracial woman whose parents were forbidden by law to marry in their home state of Maryland in the early 1960s. She is the mother of two children, a lawyer, journalist, radio talk show host (WPFW fm 89.3 in Washington, D.C.) and author of the children's book, â??Mommy, Why's Your Skin So Brown?â?? Maria graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, served in the Clinton Administration's Justice Department, fostered newborn babies awaiting adoption, and has been on the boards of Children's National Medical Center BOV, the Catholic Coalition for Special Education, GirlsUp and the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Washington. She has written for The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Bethesda Magazine, Parenting, BabyTalk and Washington For Women. She lives in Fairhaven, Maryland.

S4, Ep. 14: Mixed Race Writer Maria Olsen

Amina Gautier is the author of three award-winning short story collections: The Loss of All Lost Things, which won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the USA Best Book Award in African American Fiction a Florida Authors and Publishers Association Award Gold Medal in Short Fiction, and was Long-listed for The Chautauqua Prize in Fiction, and At-Risk, which won the Flannery Oâ??Connor Award for Short Fiction, and received an Eric Hoffer Legacy Award and a First Horizon Award. Gautier has published a record number of short stories.

S4, Ep. 13: Award-winning Mixed-race Writer Amina Gautier

The top podcast about multiracial, multicultural, biracial &amp; Mixed issues &amp; experience. Interviews with artists, community leaders, scholars &amp; regular folks. www.themixedexperience.com

I&#39;ve listened to at least 10 episodes now and I find them consistently interesting. The authors Ms. Durrow interviews and the topics she covers are worthwhile. Her questions invariably create substantive discussions. Looking forward to listening to more.

Edifying

I love how Heidi Durrow opens up the dialogue that can be so tricky or sensitive for many people. She is sensitive and inquisitive ~ and expresses her truth and lets others do the same. It is a really positive podcast and highly recommend it.

Great conversations about race and identity!

The top podcast about multiracial, multicultural, biracial &amp; Mixed issues &amp; experience. Interviews with artists, community leaders, scholars &amp; regular folks. <a href="http://www.themixedexperience.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.themixedexperience.com</a>

The Mixed Experience

Paul Spickard

Paul R. Spickard is an American historian and the author of several books on the subject of race and ethnicity, particularly multiracialism.

S3, Ep. 17: Critical Mixed Race Scholar Paul Spickard

Listen in on an impromptu episode about where biracial folks fit into the #blacklivesmatter rallying cry, Mixed Remixed Festival update &amp; diagnosing Mulatto Fatigue.

S2, Ep. 19: Mulatto Fatigue & #alllivesmatter

Nicole Blades

Don't miss this episode with Nicole Blades who is a journalist, writer, blogger, and mom to mixed kids who is helping to shape our conversation about the Mixed Experience!

S2, Summer Short 2: Writer/Blogger Nicole Blades

Rhonda Roorda

Rhonda Roorda, adopted by a white family, is a highly-regarded national speaker on transracial adoption. Together with Rita Simon, she coauthored a landmark trilogy of books on transracial adoption (In Their Own Voices, In Their Parents' Voices, and In Their Siblings' Voices.) Ms. Roorda's groundbreaking new book builds on that trilogy and highlights the views of non-adopted black Americans.

S3, Episode 3: Writer Rhonda Roorda on Black Transracial Adoptees' Stories

Jennifer Teege

Writer Jennifer Teege author of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discover's Her Family's Nazi Past

S2, Ep. 21: Jennifer Teege:"Black" Woman Discover's Her Family's Nazi Past

Walter Thompson-Hernandez

A wonderful photo project by Walter Thompson-Hernandez higlighting the experience of Los Angelenos mixed with an African-American and Mexican heritage. https://instagram.com/blaxicansofla/

A wonderful photo project by Walter Thompson-Hernandez higlighting the experience of Los Angelenos mixed with an African-American and Mexican heritage. <a href="https://instagram.com/blaxicansofla/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/blaxicansofla/</a>

S2, Summer Short 5: Blaxicans of LA with Walter Thompson-Hernandez

Alex Barnett

Can't wait to talk with comedian Alex Barnett (@barnettcomic) about his stand-up and how he shares the humor of his multiracial household. http://www.alexbarnettcomic.com/

Can't wait to talk with comedian Alex Barnett (@barnettcomic) about his stand-up and how he shares the humor of his multiracial household. <a href="http://www.alexbarnettcomic.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.alexbarnettcomic.com/</a>

S2, Ep. 17: Comic & Multiracial Family Man Alex Barnett

This is part of the listener spotlight series and I'm glad to welcome mixed chick Peg Bolduc to talk about her Mixed Experience.

S2, Ep. 23: Listener Spotlight Mixed Chick Peg Bolduc

Susan Katz Miller

Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her father is Jewish, her mother is protestant. She is the author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family www.susankatzmiller.com

Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her father is Jewish, her mother is protestant. She is the author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family <a href="http://www.susankatzmiller.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.susankatzmiller.com</a>

S2, Summer Short 7: Susan Katz Miller on "Being Both" in Interfaith Family

A quick episode to tell you about the Mixed Remixed Festival and share my New York Times essay.

S2, Summer Short 1: Festival Debrief & New York Times Essay

Katie Malia

"Almost Asian" is a unique and witty new webseries from actress and writer, Katie Malia, that explores the ethnic dichotomies and racial diversities prevalent in youth culture today. www.almostasian.com

"Almost Asian" is a unique and witty new webseries from actress and writer, Katie Malia, that explores the ethnic dichotomies and racial diversities prevalent in youth culture today. <a href="http://www.almostasian.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.almostasian.com</a>

S2, Summer Short 6: Actress/Writer Katie Malia of Almost Asian

In the wake of the Supreme Courtâ??s unanimous decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Virginiaâ??s Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The communityâ??s white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use for their all-white classrooms, while black parents scrambled to find alternative education for their children. For five years, the schools remained closed in Prince Edward County.    Author and journalist Kristen Green grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, which didnâ??t open its doors to black students until 1986. Thirty four years after the Supreme Court ended school segregation, Green first began to learn the truth about her hometownâ??s shameful history. As a wife and mother in her own multiracial family, the revelations of the haunting period in our nationâ??s past become more complex and painful as she discovers the role her own grandparents played.    Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green is a provocative true story that reveals a little-known chapter of American history.

S2, Summer Short 4: Writer Kristen Green

I'm excited to talk to the filmmakers behind a German documentary series Schwarz Rot Gold. Schwarz Rot Gold portrays ten famous German Black and talks about the past, present and future of identities and racism in Germany. The goal of the project is to raise awareness about racism in Germany and to present role models for young people. Learn more here. And check out their Facebook page too.

S2, Summer Short 3: German Filmmakers on German Biracial Experience

Michael Twitty

Michael 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 cultu ral politics. Afroculinaria will highlight and address foodÃ¢??s critical role in the development and definition of African American civilization and the politics of consumption and cultural ownership that surround it.http://afroculinaria.com/

Michael 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 cultu ral politics. Afroculinaria will highlight and address foodÃ¢??s critical role in the development and definition of African American civilization and the politics of consumption and cultural ownership that surround it.http://<a href="http://afroculinaria.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">afroculinaria.com/</a>

S2, Ep. 24: Michael Twitty of Afroculinaria/@Kosher Soul

James Ong

Listen in on this conversation about the future of the multiracial movement.

S2, Bonus 5: James Ong, scholar

Join my conversation with Mixed Irish writers Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Dylan Amaro-McIntyre, Clare Ramsaran, and Caroline M. Mar.

S2, Ep. 26: Mixed and Irish

Tracy K. Smith

I talk with the amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith about her new memoir Ordinary Light.

S2, Ep. 22 - Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith On Her New Memoir

Laila Lalami

I'm excited to speak with award-winning writer Laila Lalami author of The Moor's Account.

S2: Ep. 13: Laila Lalami, Award-winning Writer

I'm beyond thrilled to have Zindy Laursen on the show. She is a fellow Afro-Viking, a hit-making pop star, a European stage star, a former bikini model and an unstoppable, beautiful, powerful woman! www.zindy.com

I'm beyond thrilled to have Zindy Laursen on the show. She is a fellow Afro-Viking, a hit-making pop star, a European stage star, a former bikini model and an unstoppable, beautiful, powerful woman! <a href="http://www.zindy.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.zindy.com</a>

S2, Ep. 20: Singer-Actress-Dancer Zindy Laursen

I interview the founders of Multicultural Kids, and the co-creators of the new multicultural kids' book Beautiful Rainbow World.

S2, Bonus 6 - Multicultural Kids Founders

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