Multiracial Family Man

Ep. 30: TaRessa Stovall is Black, White, and Jewish.  She was raised in Seattle and in her formative years found herself involved with the Black Panthers and receiving the benefit of their educational outreach efforts.  She also remembers quite well the experience of being introduced to the music of fellow Seattle-ite, Jimi Hendrix.  Some time later, she left Seattle for Atlanta where she worked in public relations for Spelman College.  A mom of two, TaRessa is an author who writes frequently about questions of race and multiraciality, and talks candidly about her own multiracial experience and that of her children (whose father is Black).  For more about TaRessa, check out her blog, Black and Blewish (http://blackandblewish.com/) and her website: Taressa (http://www.taressa.com/). For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please c

Ep. 29: Rudy Tabasa is a Black and Filipino hip-hop dancer turned clothing designer who created a clothing line to advocate for and represent the multiracial community.  Rudy calls the company HalfBreed Clothing Company (http://halfbreedclothingco.myshopify.com/), and he was inspired to create it to help his daughter embrace her roots and feel less alone.  It has now become a huge sucess, and is growing all the time. Listen as Rudy discusses growing up multiracial in the Bay Area in and around San Francisco, his time as a hip-hop dancer, and how he is hoping that HalfBreed will inspire and advocate for his daughter and the countless other multiracial kids out there. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here: MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Lic

Ep. 28: Javon Johnson is a Biracial (Black-White) man raised in New York City by his father, a Black man and single parent, who was and is Javon's mentor and role model.  After a prolonged separation, Javon reunited with his White mother.  Listen as Javon discusses the challenges he faced growing up in a predominantly White neighborhood, the impact that his family dynamic had upon his understanding of his identity, and how he has come to embrace all aspects of his persona.  Javon is a New York native, born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from SUNY at Buffalo in 1994 and after a few years in the corporate world decided to follow in his father's footsteps and become a hairstylist.  Some time later, he became a real estate broker and his experiences as a multiracial person coupled with his knowledge of New York City have enabled him to work with people from all races, ethnicities and walks of life to assist them in finding the best possible physical space for

Ep. 27: Jen Chancellor and Shadana Hurd are a same-sex, married, multiracial couple with a teenage daughter.  They're also former proffesional women's football players.  On this episode of the Multiracial Family Man, they talk about their experiences as gay people, how they met, the story of how they got married, and the range of issues they face as a same-sex multiracial family, including how they are addressing the dating life of their heterosexual teenage daughter.  They also provide an eye-opening account of their lives as proffesional female football players. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here: MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 26: Ellie Cee is a psychologist, former family therapist and multiracial mommy blogger.  On her blog, Musing Momma (http://www.musingmomma.com), she shares inspiration for happy parenting and reflects on life as a mom in a multiracial family. A Ph.D. in psychology, Ellie counseled children and families for years before changing paths to spend more time with her family. She resides in Central Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons (ages 5 and 8) and their sweet, arthritic dog (age 84 in dog years).  Listen as Ellie discusses issues facing multiracial families and how she and her husband (also a psychologist) utilize their training in facing and coping with these issues. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licens

Episode 25: Alex Munoz, who once served as Prince's stand-in during the making of a movie, is a multiracial (Chamorro, Mexican, and European) filmmaker.  His films re-valorize marginalized perspectives.  Whether it's his award-winning webisode Griot's Lament or his work on the USO's Hoops for Troops tour, or his work with FYI films, helping incarcerated youth learn filmmaking to enable them to tell their story, Alex is all about using film to raise up and advocate for the disenfranchised, the voiceless, and those who suffer the indignities of racism and discrimination. For more on Alex Munoz, please see: https://alexcmunoz.wordpress.com/about/ For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 24: Garcelle Beauvais is known for her work on the Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue, and Franklin & Bash, but outside of her acting work, Garcelle (a mother to 3 sons, including a set of twin multiracial sons), along with co-author Sebastian A. Jones, has penned the I Am . . . children's book series, including the first book, I Am Mixed, which features a set of fraternal multiracial twins (Jay and Nia). (http://www.amazon.com/Am-Mixed-Book/dp/0578110873). In addition to her tv roles, Garcelle has been active in the movies, including her roles in American Gun, with Forrest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden and Donald Sutherland; Women in Trouble with Simon Baker and Josh Brolin; Barbershop 2: Back in Business, with Queen Latifah; and Bad Company, opposite Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins. Garcelle also shot the short film Eyes to See, which focuses on the Haiti earthquake, inspired by the writer/director’s personal involvement with the Haitian relief effort right after tragedy. Garcelle also is active in community o

Ep. 23: Susan Graham, the founder of Project RACE (http://www.projectrace.com/), talks about her youth in Detroit, her interracial marriage, and raising biracial, Jewish children.  Susan then discusses how her experience of being forced to "check a box" on census forms led her to create Project RACE, which advocates for multiracial families and is leading the charge for identifying marrow donors for those who are multiracial. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 22: Multiracial actress Jennifer Frappier (http://www.jenniferfrappier.com/), is also the Producer and Event Planner for the Mixed Remixed Festival (http://www.mixedremixed.org/), as well as an advocate for egg-freezing (http://www.chillthedocumentary.com/). Listen as Jen talks about growing up as a multiracial person in Virginia in the 70s and 80s, about the racial issues that arose during her childhood, and about the racial issues that continue to confront her as she makes her way in her acting career.  In addition, Jen speaks with Alex about the growth of the Mixed-Remixed Festival and how it's become a haven for multiracial people.  Finally, check out their conversation about egg freezing, which is becoming more and more of an issue as women delay childbirth until later in life.  For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin

Ep. 21: Multiracial family advocate and creator of Yogasteya (yoga for all shapes, sizes and abilities - http://yogasteya.com/),  Dianne Bondy (http://diannebondyyoga.com/), talks about her own multiracial family (she's Black and married to a White man and raising biracial children), about growing up in a mostly White neighborhood, her career in fitness training, her battles with body image, which led her to create Yogasteya, and the experience of multiracial families in Canada. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Ep. 20: An adoption and mixed race advocate, actress Santana Dempsey (http://www.santanadempsey.com/ ), (a University of Missouri alumnus) is a veteran of New York City's Primary Stages, INTAR, Soho Rep, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and Carnegie Hall. She also wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed one woman show, “The Other Box” which she workshopped in November 2014 at the Actors Comedy Studio in Los Angeles. Santana is an ambassador for the non profit Mixed Roots Foundation which helps to bring awareness to anyone touched by adoption.  On March 14th, Santana joined LupusLA by running in the Asics Big 5k to raise money for a cure.  Currently, she is working on an interdisciplinary art project called Somewhere In Between (working title) that celebrates identity and diversity.  Listen as Santana talks about her mixed Afro-Hispanic background, her experience in foster care and being adopted, and the multiracial experience in Hollywood in this supposed age of diversity. For more on host, Alex Barnett,

Ep. 19: My Family Builders (http://www.myfamilybuilders.com/) is a wooden doll toy set intended to allow children to design and build a family as diverse as their own creativity can imagine.  Listen as the founder of My Family Builders, toy designer, EZ Karp, talks about his background as a Jewish man from Argentina, how he became a toy designer, what prompted him to create My Family Builders, and the Clark Doll Test (and others like it), which inspired and inspires him to make these dolls available to kids everywhere so that they can build the characters and families of their choosing. Traditional doll sets impose limitations on a child’s imagination, which can have lasting effects. MyFamilyBuilders removes these restrictions and opens their eyes to a world of possibilities. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (in

Ep. 18, Simone Weichselbaum, a criminal justice journalist with the Marshall Project (https://www.themarshallproject.org/staff/simone-weichselbaum), talks about her Black Jamaican and Orthodox Jewish roots, about race and criminal justice and about the multiracial experience in America in the Age of Obama. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Ep. 17: Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University,  talks about his Black and Jewish Heritage, growing up biracial in Boston, Africana Studies in the world of academia, and the multiracial experience in America in the Age of Obama. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Ep. 16: Abbi Crutchfield and Luke Thayer, an interracial married couple, who also are comics and actors discuss growing up in Indiana, how they met, and how race and racism arise in their lives and in their work.  For more on Abbi (who is Biracial and African-American), please check: http://curlycomedy.tumblr.com/ and for more on Luke (who is White), please check: http://www.comedianluke.com/ For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 15: Jamaican immigrant, multiracial mommy blogger, and tv weather anchor, Stacy-Ann Gooden (http://weatheranchormama.com/) discusses the multiracial experience, including Stacy-Ann's own personal experiences as a Black Jamaican immigrant to the United States, her marriage to a White man of Irish and German descent, and how they're raising their two Biracial chidlren. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 14: Grace Hwang Lynch, a journalist and mommy-blogger (http://hapamama.com/), who writes and speaks about her own multiracial family discusses the Asian-White multiracial experience, including Grace's own personal experiences as an Taiwanese-American married to a White man and as mother to two biracial chidlren. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 13: What's it like to be Black and Mormon?  How about Black and Mormon and married to a White man.  Listen as tv anchor and mommy-blogger, Jennifer Borget (http://www.jenniferborget.com/) (http://www.babymakingmachine.com/), discusses the Multiracial experience, including Jennifer's own personal experiences as a Black Mormon woman married to a White man and as mother to two Biracial chidlren. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 12: Lisa W. Rosenberg is a biracial, Jewish former professional ballet dancer who now works as a psychotherapist, writer and speaker (on topics related to body image, parenting and identity).  For more about Lisa, please see: http://lisawrosenberg.com Listen as Lisa and Alex discuss the Multiracial experience, including Lisa's own personal experiences, as a biracial person and as a mom to multiracial kids. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 11: Aaron Samuels (http://aaronsamuelspoetry.com/), is a biracial, Jewish Poet and Writer, who grew up in Rhode Island.  Aaron's work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, featured on TV One’s Verses & Flow, and has appeared in journals including Tidal Basin Review and Muzzle Magazine. His debut collection of poetry, Yarmulkes & Fitted Caps was released by Write Bloody Publishing in fall 2013. Listen as Aaron and Alex discuss the Multiracial experience, including Aaron's own personal experiences, as a biracial person. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/