In the past few years I’ve been very open about my gender, telling everyone my pronouns and calling people out on their queerphobia or bullshit assumptions.

But in that, talking about race has sort of disappeared in the mix. I want to fix that.

In particular, I want to find a community of mixed people like myself, as well as start to understand the issues of colorism (I’m light skin-ish, so in winter and for a lot of my early childhood I was pale enough that I was...