In the first episode of this limited season release of the On Being Biracial Podcast (more to come in 2023!), hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley explore how multiracial youth are rewriting old assumptions about identity and race. In this episode, you will learn:

• How paradigms such as the “one-drop rule” are being increasingly challenged by youth who embrace their mixed ancestry.

• How their conceptions of their identities are complicated by how others view them, and the binary projections and expectations of race in this country.

• How youth see barriers to acceptance around multiracial identities.

• How they hope to bring about social change and inspire inclusion, not only for themselves, but for future generations.

The perspectives of youth shared in this episode all derive from first-hand experiences. Interviews were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic with a special emphasis on educational and social experiences K-12, as they relate to and intersect with the subject of identity.

This season's interviewees include Jayden, Isaiah and Susannah Starks, Akemi Blake Marquez, Mason, Riley and Reece Mathisen, Zoey and Jackson Mayner, Jackson Medrano, Laila Jacobs, Liam, Adrianna, Oliver and Finley Marion, Whitley Alpher, Tucker, Sam and Zora.

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

And, for more content from our hosts on these topics, please check out the following links to episode one, season one of Daralyse's The Demystifying Diversity podcast and read Malcolm's essay, ‘My Biracial Life':

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-biraciality-embracing-the-nuanced-nature/id1526019650?i=1000492117071

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/02/08/my-biracial-life/

To read a transcript of this episode, visit OBB IDENTITY Episode.pdf

In this episode of our limited season release of the On Being Biracial Podcast, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley talk with young people ages 4-21 about their personal connections to culture, including the pastimes and familial traditions that mean the most to them. As these mixed-race individuals explore their relationships with culture, and the intergenerational connections that inform their traditions, they demonstrate the dynamic nature of culture and community.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How biracial people persevere in a cultural context when faced with the fact that their ancestral histories often conflict with one another.

• How research shows the lifelong benefits of intergenerational relationships, such as relationships between young folx and their grandparents, on the mental health and outcomes of individuals of all ages.

• How biracial youth are actively reclaiming and honoring their ancestral cultures, which oppression and invasion have sought to suppress, deny, and/or erase.

• How many blended families are embracing the cultural diversity that can come about through stepfamily situations.

The perspectives of youth shared in this episode all derive from first-hand experiences. Interviews were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic with a special emphasis on educational and social experiences K-12, as they relate to and intersect with the subject of culture.

This season's interviewees include Jayden, Isaiah and Susannah Starks, Akemi Blake Marquez, Mason, Riley and Reece Mathisen, Zoey and Jackson Mayner, Jackson Medrano, Laila Jacobs, Liam, Adrianna, Oliver and Finley Marion, Whitley Alpher, Tucker, Sam and Zora.

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

And, for more content and source material referenced in this episode, please check out the following links:

Benefits of Intergenerational Connections - www.legacyproject.org

Our Existence Is Resistance | Cultural Survival

Broken Child, Mended Man: An Autobiography

To read a transcript of this episode, visit OBB CULTURE Episode.pdf

In this last episode of the limited season release of the On Being Biracial Podcast (with more episodes and new guests to come in 2023!), hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley discuss the ways multiracial youth perceive belonging, and also crave it when exclusion is part of their experience.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How the secondary school environment, known for its ingroups and cliques, can be especially challenging for multiracial youth who defy singular categorizations.

• How, despite experiences of exclusion, a new generation of multiracial youth is finding it easier to make friends with folks of similar backgrounds and identities.

• Why the ability to navigate multiple social groups and communities can be both a blessing and a curse for multiracial youth

• How structures of systemic racism uniquely impact multiracial children.

• How binary categories of race influence feelings of belonging for multiracial people in various contexts.

The perspectives of youth shared in this episode all derive from first-hand experiences. Interviews were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic with a special emphasis on educational and social experiences K-12, as they relate to and intersect with the subject of belonging.

This season's interviewees include Jayden, Isaiah and Susannah Starks, Akemi Blake Marquez, Mason, Riley and Reece Mathisen, Zoey and Jackson Mayner, Jackson Medrano, Laila Jacobs, Liam, Adrianna, Oliver and Finley Marion, Whitley Alpher, Tucker, Sam and Zora.

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

And, for more content from our hosts on these topics, please check out the following links to episode one, season one of Daralyse's The Demystifying Diversity podcast and read Malcolm's essay, ‘My Biracial Life':

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-biraciality-embracing-the-nuanced-nature/id1526019650?i=1000492117071

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/02/08/my-biracial-life/

To read a transcript of this episode, visit OBB BELONGING Episode.pdf

In this season's first episode of the On Being Biracial podcast, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley discuss the major themes, throughlines and frameworks derived from our 30 interviews about the multiracial experience, while introducing listeners to many of the voices you'll hear throughout the season.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why identifying with one race, rather than multiple, remains the norm for the majority of multiracial people in the United States.

• How people who come from multiracial ancestral backgrounds choose to identify in a variety of ways, for a variety of reasons, and why those identities typically change over the course of their lives.

• How stereotypes about mixed people are perpetuated and manipulated by people outside of the experience.

• How binary categories of race influence feelings of belonging for multiracial people in various contexts.

• Why issues of belonging, identity, family, and more can be layered in complicated ways for multiracial individuals.

This season's interviewees are: Ashanti Martin, Azaria Keys, Bárbara Idalissee Abadía-Rexach, Carter O'Brien Ford, Cat Dyson, Chantelle Fitzgerald, Charlotte Gill, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Drew Allmond, Evan Fong Jaroff, Hannah Wallace, Ian Burnley, Jewel Love, John Blake, Jourdin Davis, Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman, Lise Funderburg, Mat Johnson, Nora Elmarzouky, Rachael Go, Rachel Lauren, Samonte Cruz, Sandra Clark, Sarabella Rocha, Sarah Gaither, Sienna McWhirter, Tyla Taylor, Tyler Sloane, W Kamau Bell, Zein Hassanein, and Mark Hugo Lopez.

Click here for a transcript of the episode: This Mixed Identity Thing - Transcript

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

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Our partners include:

WURD Radio - wurdradio.com

Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative - https://resolvephilly.org/PJC

Kouvenda Media - kouvendamedia.com

And, for more content referenced in this episode from our hosts and guests on these topics, please check out the following links:

Daralyse's Demystifying Diversity Podcast: Demystifying Diversity - Biraciality

Daralyse's TEDx talk: Black or White? Refusing to Choose & Embracing Biracial Identity

W. Kamau Bell's 1000% Me

Charlotte Gill's Almost Brown

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

Lise Funderburg's Black, White, Other

In the second episode of this season on the On Being Biracial podcast, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley dissect the psychological, social, and physiological impact of multiracial people's repeated exposure to the “What Are You?” question. It's one of the most common experiences amongst multiracial people, and also one of the more divisive.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How questioning someone's racial identity can lead to negative health outcomes, both mental and physical, for those being questioned.

• Why the U.S. census was originally set up to reinforce racial binaries and how recent changes have worked to undo that, expanding the possibilities for multiracial identification.

• Experiences of what it's like to have others question, scrutinize, or undermine your racial identity based on their own assumptions.

• How the “What Are You?” question can have a lifelong impact on belonging, self-advocacy, and mental health.

This season's interviewees are: Ashanti Martin, Azaria Keys, Bárbara Idalissee Abadía-Rexach, Carter O'Brien Ford, Cat Dyson, Chantelle Fitzgerald, Charlotte Gill, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Drew Allmond, Evan Fong Jaroff, Hannah Wallace, Ian Burnley, Jewel Love, John Blake, Jourdin Davis, Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman, Lise Funderburg, Mat Johnson, Nora Elmarzouky, Rachael Go, Rachel Lauren, Samonte Cruz, Sandra Clark, Sarabella Rocha, Sarah Gaither, Sienna McWhirter, Tyla Taylor, Tyler Sloane, W Kamau Bell, Zein Hassanein, and Mark Hugo Lopez.

Click here for a transcript of the episode: “What Are You?” - Transcript

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

Buy us a coffee: Buy Us A Coffee

Our partners include:

WURD Radio - wurdradio.com

Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative - resolvephilly.org

Kouvenda Media - kouvendamedia.com

For more content referenced in this episode from our hosts and guests on these topics, please check out the following links:

Daralyse's TEDx talk: Black or White? Refusing to Choose & Embracing Biracial Identity

Malcolm's Philly Mag essay

W. Kamau Bell's 1000% Me

Charlotte Gill's Almost Brown

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

Lise Funderburg's Black, White, Other

Barbara Idalissee Abadia-Rexach's research: SFSU

In the third episode of On Being Biracial, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley and their guests answer an essential question for multiracial people: Is our racial identity fixed, or is it fluid?

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why the U.S. Census and other demographers are carefully embracing mixed-race or multiracial options in the racial data gathered in surveys.

• How group-identity categorization within the queer community has provided a helpful framework for many mixed-race people to understand their racial identity.

• Why identity suppression, denial, and restriction by society can harm multiracial individuals and others.

• What sociological research confirms about the fluidity of identity labels among multiracial people.

This season's interviewees are: Ashanti Martin, Azaria Keys, Bárbara Idalissee Abadía-Rexach, Carter O'Brien Ford, Cat Dyson, Chantelle Fitzgerald, Charlotte Gill, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Drew Allmond, Evan Fong Jaroff, Hannah Wallace, Ian Burnley, Jewel Love, John Blake, Jourdin Davis, Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman, Lise Funderburg, Mat Johnson, Nora Elmarzouky, Rachael Go, Rachel Lauren, Samonte Cruz, Sandra Clark, Sarabella Rocha, Sarah Gaither, Sienna McWhirter, Tyla Taylor, Tyler Sloane, W Kamau Bell, Zein Hassanein, and Mark Hugo Lopez.

Click here for a transcript of the episode: Ep. 3 - Unfixed - Transcript

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

Buy us a coffee: Buy Us A Coffee

Our partners include:

WURD Radio - wurdradio.com

Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative - resolvephilly.org/pjc

Kouvenda Media - kouvendamedia.com

For more content referenced in this episode from our hosts and guests on these topics, please check out the following links:

Bad at Sports Podcast, featuring Gregg Bordowitz and David Getsy

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

Mark Hugo Lopez & Pew's Multiracial in America Survey

Lise Funderburg's Black, White, Other

Rachael Go's The Mix'd Movement Podcast

W. Kamau Bell's 1000% Me

Charlotte Gill's Almost Brown

In the fourth episode of this season's On Being Biracial podcast, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley dive into the intersections of both school and the workplace and mixed-race identity. How do those spaces change the ways we understand and express ourselves, for better and for worse?

In this episode, you will learn:

• How the education system reinforces racial segregation and white supremacy, and how that legacy has a particular impact on multiracial students.

• Why the harm of erasing access to an ancestral language can be a violent experience for multiracial people.

• How multiracial kids learn differently than monoracial youth, according to research from social scientists.

• How school, from kindergarten to college, can be a space for claiming racial identities but also for experiencing alienation from racial peers.

This season's interviewees are: Ashanti Martin, Azaria Keys, Bárbara Idalissee Abadía-Rexach, Carter O'Brien Ford, Cat Dyson, Chantelle Fitzgerald, Charlotte Gill, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Drew Allmond, Evan Fong Jaroff, Hannah Wallace, Ian Burnley, Jewel Love, John Blake, Jourdin Davis, Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman, Lise Funderburg, Mat Johnson, Nora Elmarzouky, Rachael Go, Rachel Lauren, Samonte Cruz, Sandra Clark, Sarabella Rocha, Sarah Gaither, Sienna McWhirter, Tyla Taylor, Tyler Sloane, W Kamau Bell, Zein Hassanein, and Mark Hugo Lopez.

Click here for a transcript of the episode: Ep. 4 - Privileges and Pressures - Transcript

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

Buy us a coffee: Buy Us A Coffee

Our partners include:

WURD Radio - wurdradio.com

Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative - resolvephilly.org

Kouvenda Media - kouvendamedia.com

For more content referenced in this episode from our hosts and guests on these topics, please check out the following links:

Daralyse and Azaria's Podcast Episode Demystifying Diversity - Moving Beyond Biases QA

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

In the fifth episode of On Being Biracial, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley discuss the familiar feeling of being too much of one thing, not enough of another in the eyes of others, and the ways biracial people can find belonging and authenticity despite these experiences.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How many biracial people with white ancestors seek to acknowledge their privileges while simultaneously maintaining a group identity with their minority race(s).

• Why belonging can sometimes feel attainable for biracial people and, other times, seem fleeting or elusive.

• Why access to spaces is not always synonymous with inclusion.
  

• The essential role that college can play in fostering holistic expression and belonging among mixed people.
  

• How outsider experiences within family can be a particularly hard, if not common, experience for multiracial people.
  

• Why code-switching and other forms of identity-signaling can be acts of vitality for multiracial people.

This season's interviewees are: Ashanti Martin, Azaria Keys, Bárbara Idalissee Abadía-Rexach, Carter O'Brien Ford, Cat Dyson, Chantelle Fitzgerald, Charlotte Gill, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Drew Allmond, Evan Fong Jaroff, Hannah Wallace, Ian Burnley, Jewel Love, John Blake, Jourdin Davis, Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman, Lise Funderburg, Mat Johnson, Nora Elmarzouky, Rachael Go, Rachel Lauren, Samonte Cruz, Sandra Clark, Sarabella Rocha, Sarah Gaither, Sienna McWhirter, Tyla Taylor, Tyler Sloane, W Kamau Bell, Zein Hassanein, and Mark Hugo Lopez.

Click here for a transcript of the episode: Outsider Things - Transcript

Check out our website: onbeingbiracial.com

Buy us a coffee: Buy Us A Coffee

Our partners include:

WURD Radio - wurdradio.com

Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative - resolvephilly.org

Kouvenda Media - kouvendamedia.com

For more content about topics referenced in this episode, please check out the following links:

Mat Johnson's Loving Day: A Novel

WURD Segment with Daralyse & Malcolm

NPR Story: Understanding Multiracial Whiteness And Trump Supporters

Daralyse and Azaria's Podcast Demystifying Diversity, Season 3

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

Lise Funderburg's Black, White, Other