ITYC Audio Journal #2: What Are You?-Crossing Boarders, Bridging Generations

Erica Chito Childs

Last Thursday, I attended an event at the Brooklyn Historical Society for their "Crossing Boarders, Bridging Generations" series called What Are You? The panel tackled the this perpetual question often aimed at people who are perceived to be ethnically ambiguous.

Presenting their own encounters/experiences with the "what are you?" question were Angela Tucker, creator of the webseries Black Folk Don't; Heidi Durrow, author of the New York Times Bestseller The Girl Who Fell from the Sky and co-host of Mixed Chicks Chat; Jen Chau, founder of Swirl, Inc.; Erica Chito Childs, author of Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture and Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day.

Here, in this second installment of ITYC Audio Journal, I share details about the panel discussion and some of my personal thoughts about race, identity and "what are you?"

Shout out to my small group/breakout session partners Jessica and Jillian!

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