Queer non-binary writer, musician, and author of memoir Not Quite White Laila Woozeer explores how 90s pop culture proliferated the fetishisation of mixed race people.

Not Quite White: how 90s pop culture fetishised mixed race people

As I grew older, I had dozens of unanswered questions: were there other mixed people, or just me and Mel B?

By the mid-2010s, mixed had become a regularly used word to describe the ‘in’ look

I’m hopeful that we can reach a point where we form connections that go beyond what we look like and instead centre our shared experiences

Not Quite White author Laila Woozeer explores the problematic legacy of a defining decade.

“My appearance became a fashion trend”: Not Quite White author Laila Woozeer on how 90s pop culture fetishised mixed race people