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Mixed Up

Aug 25, 2021

The one where we learn that modern day mums have a plan for raising mixed kids

Emma and Nicole speak to white mums about raising mixed kids. In part one of this two part conversation, the mothers discuss having a different experience from your children as a white parent, when to bring up race and othering, and having a...


Aug 18, 2021

CW: Domestic abuse

Emma and Nicole speak with Paula Rhone-Adrien, an award-winning family law barrister with over two decades of experience as a domestic violence lawyer. Knowing that COVID has meant restrictions on leaving the home during the pandemic, they felt moved to share this conversation. 

Paula Rhone-Adrien is...


Aug 11, 2021

The one where its ALL just a metaphor for being mixed

Emma and Nicole have an incredibly candid conversation Ben Bailey Smith aka Doc Brown. They discuss football as a unifier, class, identity politics, being fetishised as a mixed man, and how the Britain he grew up in bears little resemblance to the one today.

Ben is a...


Aug 4, 2021

The one where we’re typecast as ‘Bengali Girl’

Emma talks to Sarah Kameela Impey of We Are Lady Parts, discussing her role as frontwoman Saira and how growing up she didn’t see many people who looked like her in stories. They discuss how groundbreaking the show is in terms of modern representation of Muslim...