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Scheduled Episodes

Time: Duration: Title:
07/10/2009 02:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 109 - Mixed Chicks Chat with another Mixed Family: Lisa Kurtz
07/17/2009 05:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 110 - Mixed Chicks on Sororities & Fraternities
07/24/2009 05:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 111 - Author Carleen Brice, Children of the Waters
07/31/2009 05:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 112 - MeltingPotMoms
08/07/2009 05:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 113 - Dr. Maria P.P. Root
08/14/2009 05:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 114 - Our top 10 favorite things about being Mixed
08/21/2009 05:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 115: Tragic Mulattas for a Day
09/04/2009 06:30 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 117 - Sheila Ganz, director of 'Unlocking the Heart of Adoption'
09/11/2009 05:00 PM EDT
30 min
EPISODE 118 - Mixed Chicks and Music

Past Episodes (112)

Time: Duration: Title: Recordings:
07/03/2009 05:00 PM EDT
32:49
EPISODE 108 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Mike Peden
   
06/26/2009 05:00 PM EDT
36:09
EPISODE 107 - Mixed Weddings
   
06/12/2009 05:00 PM EDT
10:43
EPISODE 106 - Mixed in Hollywood
   
06/05/2009 05:00 PM EDT
35:37
EPISODE 105 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Phillip Handy, President of Fusion
   
05/29/2009 05:00 PM EDT
29:51
EPISODE 104 - Mixed Chicks Chatting it Up
   
05/22/2009 05:00 PM EDT
32:56
EPISODE 103 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Mulatto Patriot
   
05/15/2009 05:00 PM EDT
32:02
EPISODE 102 - Mixed Chicks' Mixed Bag
   
05/08/2009 05:00 PM EDT
40:34
EPISODE 101 - Harvard Professor Kimberly DaCosta
   
05/01/2009 05:00 PM EDT
31:34
EPISODE 100 - Mixed Chicks Chat - 100th Episode!
   
04/24/2009 05:00 PM EDT
31:29
EPISODE 99 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti
   
04/16/2009 05:00 PM EDT
1:11:24
EPISODE 98 - Rebecca Walker Tipas for Hapas
   
04/06/2009 12:00 PM EDT
24:44
EPISODE 97 - Mixed Chicks Chat and a Mixed Bag
   
04/03/2009 05:00 PM EDT
38:33
EPISODE 96 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Blur founders Will & Maribel Mandeville
   
03/27/2009 07:00 PM EDT
31:00
BONUS EPISODE - Mixed Chicks Chat w/Curly Girl Lorraine Massey of Devachan!
   
03/27/2009 05:00 PM EDT
29:05
EPISODE 95 - Mixed Chicks Chat with blogger Michelle Clark
   

Reviews

Talking about the real issues - Reviewer: Monica 06/14/09 03:52 PM EDT
Full Comment: You definitely talk about the real issues. I am in love with your candor. I am amazed at your ability to be completely honest, yet objective at the same time.
not open for discussion - Reviewer: avenger 05/01/09 05:32 PM EDT
Full Comment: Hosts do not want to discuss real issues and rarely take callers
Pig Candy - Reviewer: dwillwrite 08/15/08 12:48 AM EDT
Full Comment: I listened to most of the Pig Candy podcast with Lise Funderburg. I looked forward to the new book after reading Black, White, Other and following her career. I need to listen to the show a few times to get a feel of what you are attempting other than sharing experiences as mixed-race. See my review for Pig Candy- Dera Williams http://www.amazon.com/Pig-Candy-Taking-Father-Home/dp/1416547665/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218775583&sr=1-1
I'm Mixed; Nobody Knows It - Reviewer: Angie51 08/10/08 09:31 PM EDT
Full Comment: Dear Fanshen & Heidi, I truly enjoyed participating in my first ever podcast. Your graciousness to allow me to go "on and on" about my grand daughter was cathartic...people just don't understand. I look forward to listening to you ladies as you lend your lives and your voice to helping others understand and celebrate the journey of mixed race individuals. Thank you for helping me in my quest to navigate, appreciate and understand, to the best of my ability, some of the obstacles and opportunities that my 4 little mixed race grand daughters will encounter.
Biracial World Domination - Reviewer: biracial 04/18/08 02:59 PM EDT
Full Comment: Still waiting to here your stance of the Biracial World Domination movement ( http://www.biracialworlddomination ). Is this really sometihng that's going on? Is this a hate group or an betterment group?
Mixed Chicks & Black Men - Reviewer: Flex60369 03/04/08 10:55 AM EST
Full Comment: Hey loved your show on mixed chicks and black men. It made me revisit some issues I had inside myself. While I am not visibly of mixed heritage many of my family members are. I was forced several years ago to deal with my hang-ups with skin color. I realized that it came from a tragic experience from my past, not from a european standard of beauty in American society. I think I discussed this issue with you guys in my email.
Finally a show for us mixed girls!!! - Reviewer: SolShine7 12/06/07 01:51 AM EST
Full Comment: I wish there was something like this when I was growing up. I'm an '80s baby and I never really had a forum outside of my family where I could talk about what it means to be bi-racial. Or had a place to hear other mixed people share their experiences. At least not until not I read an issue of Mavin magazine my senior year of high school and later on when I joined Swirl Inc. in college. I just finished listening to episode two and I'm now I'm hooked!!! I can't wait to listen to the rest of the shows and get caught up. I really appreciate you ladies sharing your stories and empowering a younger generation to publicly engage in a much-needed discussion about our mixed heritage. Keep up the good work!
Makeup - Reviewer: ELLE 08/12/07 09:16 PM EDT
Full Comment: Hey Mixed Chicks, I'm a new listener,and just wanted to say thanks for the show. I was really looking forward to the topic of makeup, it's a topic I hold near and dear. I hope you will consider bringing this one back up at a later date and time. I believe this is a subject a lot of us mixed chicks can relate to and get a little more in-depth with. I was trying to contribute, but I was having technical difficulties at the time.
YOU GUYS SHOULD CALL YOURSELVES THE Mixed Dicks - Reviewer: mymulatto 07/23/07 09:20 AM EDT
Full Comment: YOU GUYS SHOULD CALL YOURSELVES THE Mixed Dicks
What is good hair - Reviewer: Heathervogel 07/13/07 03:02 AM EDT
Full Comment: I really enjoyed your talk about good hair. Being Jewish I have always been told that I have good Jew hair. Curly hair is considered to be more Jewish, go figure. My cousins who have straight hair would often hear the tongue clicks, and the sighs of their Aunts about not having good hair, and the ones who have curly hair, would be praised for having good Jewish genes. I think its interesting to compare and contrast the good hair cultures. Its also nice to know that it isnt only the Jewish culture who defines a person as better than others by their hair.
Black Men - Reviewer: Dee Wells 07/12/07 05:15 PM EDT
Full Comment: First and foremost, I have to say that I truly enjoyed listening to July 11th episode. This is my first time listening to Mixed Chicks and as a Black male that somewhere along my education from parents, family and schools, I, too, thought that it was better to date a mixed chick or as my friends and I referred to them, "light-skinned sisters". I don't know where I learned this or was made to believe that "light-skinned sisters" were better than "dark-skinned sisters". It wasn't until high school that the tides had turned and being a "light-skinned sister" was played out and the "dark-skinned sisters" had the upper hand. It was classic School Daze. There are so many perceptions that people of mixed backgrounds have to deal with on top of simply being a child and growing up with alot of doubt and questioning everything in life. Keep up the good work and I look forward to hearing the future Talkcasts!
what's good hair - Reviewer: beewedel 07/02/07 10:31 PM EDT
Full Comment: tTme issues and technical trouble delayed my listening to episode four. My initial response , as the white mom to a mixed chick, was how insensitive I had been. Then I pondered upon the whole senario of hair and girls, chicks and women for that matter, and a different point of view emerged. What is considered "good hair" depends on who you are, and where your are. I was raised in Denmark. My hair as a small child was blond and softly waivy. That was "good hair". About the age of four my hair went straighter on it's own, and the search for "perfect hair" began. Sunday mornings were spent with the curling iron, because a nice little girl had to have curls. And in my teens huge rollers went into my hair, with various kinds of conditioners, to give my fine textured hair more body. Using electricity to dry my hair was not prudent, so many a night my sleep was disturbed by sleeping on prickly rollers, fastened to my head with hair pins, that often stuck into my scalp. Then came the perm, a girls best friend. Amazing how ashblond hair can go oreange in a few minutes from chemicals. As adulthood set in coloring and blowdrying became the order of the day. When motherhood made demands on my time, long hair and pony tail or twisting it in a bun became a solution for everyday. And so it went for many years. Even in my sixties hair is an issue. I keep it short, pretending that it is not an issue, but still use sprays to have it spite just the right way. Oh the vanity, and how consuming that we just cannot seem to find a way to totally accept what we have and who we are. I think it is not about hair at all. But it is about self acceptance. My joy was immense when I became a mother of a beautyful baby girl with curley hair. Thank you Heidi for being that beautyful daughter.
A much needed voice - Reviewer: Danny1972 06/17/07 08:26 PM EDT
Full Comment: Fanshen - mi amiga from childhood - I finally just got listening to the first show. So many of the issues you two ladies brought up are constantly things that millions of people grapple with daily, yet rarely speak about (at least publicly anyway). Tremendous props for tackling this missing voice - hopefully this can be a springboard to a larger audience. Having biracial siblings, and now raising biracial children, all of the issues you and Heidi were talking about are so relevant to me. When Heidi was talking about her 4 yr. old relative, I thought of my 4 yr. old daughter who is completely curious about everything. Because she has a very light complexion, out of nowhere one day she said to me, Daddy me and you have the same skin right? And Mommy's brown. At first I cringed, because I have been so stuck on the militant mantra that in America it doesn't matter if a child is 1/2 white, they should identify themselves as Black, because historically having even one drop of Black blood, made them Black and as a response folks would identify with that statement, b/c society would treat them adversely if they didn't. But again - like Fanshen - older, and a bit more mature, I'm beginning to feel like no child should be pressured to be anything they don't feel comfortable being. As a father I want to expose my children to the Black experience, but also to all people's experiences. Before I get off, I have to say one really good children's book, that my daughter has enjoyed in Black, White, Just Right. I think this children's book is a great resource for new parents of bi-racial children...gotta run! KUDOS!
Messages to the Kids - Reviewer: BillMo 06/13/07 07:54 PM EDT
Full Comment: Snowmama, it's too bad about the Spiderman/Venom thing. Maybe you can counteract it by talking to your kids about the new Fantastic Four movie, where it appears that the heroes prevail by *mixing* their powers! (Not to mention it stars uber Mixed Chick Jessica Alba! :)
Awesome Heidi and Fanshen - Reviewer: trudycox 06/12/07 10:27 AM EDT
Full Comment: This will be brief, meanwhile my mind is delighted and swirling around your project--new tech for me, conversations I wish I could have heard in 1966 when I married Fanshen's Jamaican father. Our marriage did not stick but a major mutual goal has been met--to bring melded strong minds into this world that will change it--Ho, Mommy of mixed kids
at last a talk-shoe that enlights and entertain simutainously - Reviewer: bwedel 06/09/07 12:28 PM EDT
Full Comment: just spent the past hour listning to the first two episodes of mixed -chicks podcast Informative, fun and for me personally heart-touching. What a gift to be able to get a glimpse into the hearts of my daughter and her best friend. Thank you , tak, knus fra mor ps elsker dig
Rings true for more than you - Reviewer: snowmama 05/31/07 02:54 PM EDT
Full Comment: As a woman, African Belizean and American, and mother of two boys, who are me plus white Danish, I hear what you are saying, and completely understand. The African American guilt, the whiter lighter privledged. Right now my sons, aged 6 and 18months are polar opposites on the outside of each other-- and okay even in personality. Were these issues that you talked with your parents about? I never was able to discuss this with my single mom, and still can't-- even though I'm 36. I want to help my kids through this pain, guilt, and search for themselves, within their own race. When really I wish it was a search for themselves, as human beings with morals and compassion. Already in Kindergarden, this Spiderman 3 has most of the kids noting how the black Spiderman is the bad, evil, Venom. My son won't see the movie, but kids talk (a lot!) How do we get America, to market to people, not white, black, asian, hispanic, hawaiian, not to colors, not to dividers, but to people? I loved hearing this podcast. It was funny, informative and heart felt. I think you both are on to something. Bring on Mixed People month. If there is a flag or a pin, count me in to celebrate!