Mixed Up

Welcome to Mixed Up, a podcast for mixed race people everywhere and for anyone looking into a deeper insight on race and identity. Hosted by sustainability consultant and creative director Emma Slade Edmondson, and Nicole Ocran, writer and co-founder of The Creator Union. The show is about straddling two worlds and multiple identities. Now more than ever, it feels like people of mixed heritage are seeking out their space to talk about their lived experiences. But despite searching, we could find very little to relate to. We decided to make something we would have appreciated hearing. Music by: Hagan

LIVE: Maggi in your shepherd's pie - how food and storytelling go hand in hand 05/15/2024

Everybody has a hair journey: can we retire the hair typing chart yet? 05/08/2024

Dating apps are modern day segregation: a look into how the algorithms keep us apart 05/01/2024

Mel B on idenitfying as mixed, surviving abuse, and getting her Girl Power back 04/23/2024

BONUS EPISODE: South Africa, classification and why Coloured Lives Matter 04/17/2024

LIVE: Melissa Hemsley on how food feeds us on every level, secret comfort foods, and how we can't all eat the same 02/07/2024

Emma Dabiri: an exploration of beauty, power, and capitalist systems 11/15/2023

Tom Verica on the creation of the Queen Charlotte universe, power in rejecting institutions and interracial relationships on screen 11/08/2023

Lavinya Stennett on the resistance, disengagement and lack of interest in Black lives since 2020 11/01/2023

Kit de Waal on how others' perception of her identity has no bearing on her reality 10/25/2023

Black women should be SEEN, HEARD and LOVED with Kelechi Okafor 10/18/2023

Black History Month (replay): Lenora Crichlow on acting, activism and how the movement is generational 10/11/2023

The story of the Black Seminoles (the Freedmen) - my ancestors, my people - by Caitlin Bellah Cudjo 10/04/2023

Nina Lopes (replay) on living with terminal cancer and falling in love with herself and life again 09/27/2023

A late night conversation with Asian Jews: an "Ashkenazi awakening" and feeling at peace with being both Jewish and Muslim at once 09/20/2023

Emma and Nicole on then vs now: the Good Mixed Person™ and has the discourse around mixed race identity changed? 09/13/2023

Ryan Alexander Holmes on finding community, using comedy to educate others and seeing yourself as whole 09/06/2023

Kale Futterman on the writers strike and the ongoing labor dispute in Hollywood 08/30/2023

Ashleigh Plumptre on playing football for Nigeria and coming face-to-face with England’s Lionesses in the World Cup 08/21/2023

Black History Month: Afua Hirsch: "Belonging isn't a destination, it's a journey" 10/26/2022

Black History Month: Candice Brathwaite on beauty standards, what happens when you move up in class status, and being loved in all the ways you need to be (part two) 10/19/2022

Black History Month: Candice Brathwaite on showing up for yourself every day when no one else will and how Blackness does not equate to trauma (part one) 10/12/2022

Black History Month: Rosemary Adaser on surviving Ireland's mother and baby institution and the untold history of the incarceration of mixed race children 10/05/2022

Tori Tsui on the intersects of race, climate, mental health, and the importance of community care 09/28/2022

Dean Atta on being united by his identities, the importance of collecting stories from our elders, and celebrating Black queer youth 09/21/2022

Jassa Ahluwalia on being both not half, how language is the vessel, and authoring your own sense of belonging 09/14/2022

Nina Lopes on living with terminal cancer and falling in love with herself and life again 09/07/2022

Natalie Lee on shedding shame, sexual rediscovery, exploration and encouraging vulnerability 08/31/2022

Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell on finding ourselves through our heritage journeys, being the first Black woman to swim for Team GB, grief and shame 08/24/2022

Travis Alabanza asks us what we are sacrificing for gender 08/17/2022