“I have to be a healer … my ancestral colonizer’s blood runs through my veins.”—Cara PageI’ve never been into identity politics. My first experiences of race were of people asking me to choose a side, choose a parent. My parents fell in love in South Carolina in the 1970s, in a way that surprised both of them. They felt like constant outsiders or pretended to be solely one race or another. Jen Chau Forms Swirl,Unites CommunitiesWhether we want to admit it, more of us are mixed race or cross-cultural than not.