It’s here! After more than six months of writing and reporting, my long-awaited series of articles about multiracial identity in America was published this week! Take a journey with me… Discover Tacoma, Washington…a little-known...
Thank you all for following The Girl in the Yellow Poncho, a blog about my forthcoming family memoir. Your support is appreciated! In case you weren’t aware, the blog is also connected to a larger campaign called #ImNotAlone for multiracial...
She doesn’t know it yet, but my daughter Olivia lives in a world that is deeply and intensely global and multiracial. Miami. Once, while passing through Little Havana, I stopped at a drive-through Subway and was in the process of ordering a...
Last month New York’s Commission on Human Rights declared that it’s no longer okay to discriminate on the basis of hairstyle. Meaning, employers and other authorities can no longer force people to get rid of their dreadlocks...
Mom dressed me up and took me to a Venice Beach motel to see my father for the first time. Or at least, it was the first time that I could remember. I was four or five and over the moon with excitement. My father was an alcoholic and drug...
A few years ago I decided to revisit the topic of my roots and childhood in this Washington Post essay. One thing led to another and soon I had a memoir on my hands…one that took surprising twists and turns that even I never would have expected...
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