“What are you?” is a question that most people aren’t usually asked in a normal day-to-day conversation. Most people can be put off or confused by such a question, (which is understandable in all cases), but being biracial, it is most times the first question asked right after “What is your name?”

When researching statistics on discrimination, thousands of Google searches result in case study after case study comparing races against one another in the quest to understand racism, but when researching statistics specifically on biracial racism, the pickings are very slim.

Today’s society burns bright with the desire for equality. As it should. However, those of mixed races fall between the cracks. At a young age, we have to make the decision to choose one race to identify with in hopes of fitting in; we are reminded daily that we aren’t enough of one race when the other race is jokingly used against us, and when we want to speak out against racism we ask ourselves, “Am I even allowed to?”

“Checkbox: Other” aims to bring light to these biracial stories and to the many “others” of the world that have been left in the shadows during the ongoing fight for equality.