My soul is from the sea
By Gurpreet Kaur My soul is from the sea, my body from my mother, and her body from my grandmother, carrying us back to our ancestral shores in northern [...]
Meet Daniel, from London, Boston and Rowhedege
The recent focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and the terrible murder of George Floyd in the USA has brought back memories of racial abuse, injustice and inequality. [...]
Meet Nina, from Torbay
I’m Nina and I’m mixed race. I was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria to a white Jewish teenage mother and (absent) Jamaican father, and went on to have a somewhat [...]
Meet Sethina, who is mixed Ghanaian and British
I was born in Accra, Ghana, and lived there until I was 3. My mother is from Bristol and the south west, as were my grandparents Hugh and Sonia. [...]
Meet Martha, from the Cotswolds
I’ve lived in London for ten years but I am from a small village in the Cotswolds. I would say that I’m mixed race or Black. I use brown [...]
Launch of Where are you really from? podcast series
The first episode of the podcast is now available to listen to online. I first made it available to the public at an event called Mikrofest in Exeter. I [...]
Meet Tamzin, from Cornwall
Tamzin was born in London, where her mum’s family had lived for a couple of generations. She thinks originally they were of Italian Jewish/Roma Gypsy descent. Her father is Egyptian. [...]
Meet Yukiko (Yuki) from Japan and Devon
Yuki was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her father is from Fukushima, Japan and her mother is from Kyoto, Japan. Although she is Japanese, Yuki feels as though she is [...]
Meet Helen*, a British-Caribbean in Taunton
Helen is a British-Caribbean 45 year-old freelance writer. She was born in London and now lives in Taunton. She’s also lived in the West Midlands and the Netherlands. Her [...]