If you would like to share your perspective on issues of racial identity, we would love to hear your point of view. Submissions are being accepted and this includes articles, poetry and visual art. When submitting please include the following:

A short bio about yourself (150 words max) along with a picture of yourself. If you’re not comfortable with this, no sweat. A visual image will be used instead.

For written submissions, please keep submissions to 500 words max and attach document in Word format. All written submissions must be original content.

All works can be submitted to info@diversewomencollective@.com.

Tales of a Mulatto Girl: FAQs

You’re so exotic. What’s your background? Canadian.  No, where are you really from?

I am vanilla. I am chocolate. I guess that makes you butterscotch or mocha?

You hair – it’s so cool. It’s so thick, curly and kinda of nappy.  I love how it stands up on its own when you put it in a ponytail. Mine just lays flat on my back.

So do you consider yourself to be more Black or White because you can’t be both?

When you grow up, are you going to marry a Black or White guy?

You could pass for a White person – it’s just your hair.

Mulatto girl, friends to the White girls that think is ok to share or unleash their feelings of race and Black men to me.

Mulatto girl, who are you really?

Not quite this and not quite that.

Barbara Sanchez