biracial families

When This Is Us debuted, I was all in. What I didn’t expect is that it would touch my heartstrings in a way I hadn’t prepared for.

For years, my white father called my mother’s beauty an “exotic” beauty. When I started to come into my own, he began calling me “exotic,” too. It wasn’t until high school that I began to understand why this word bothered me. Though my father meant it as a compliment, the word “othered” my mother, younger sisters, and me.

I try. I really do. But whenever I attempt to embrace my husband Peter’s Cuban culture, I always screw up.

Even in today's progressive era, why do so many people prefer same race relationships...and should it even matter?

We’ve come a long way since the duo-chromatic days of black and white TV.