- What's being 'Blasian' anyway?

- I mean what did she mean by not really black?

What does it even mean to be black?

- I hold a special place for the look on people's faces when they find out that her mother is Filipina.

- What is it like being Cambodian?

Hilarious.

- What about your upbringing made you think that being black also meant being hood?

- I am black, Korean, and Eskimo.

I grew up with my Korean family and so when I was younger I felt like I was more Korean than anything else and then I attended Spelman College and I learned what it meant to be a black woman.

See I can rhyme sometimes, check it.

At age 14 she wakes up drowns her face in makeup, only to shape up her looks.

But that's a whole 'nother story, see I can dance with my thighs and my hips and my lips are full and I speak Ebonics too like, yo, check out that pimped out ride over chere.

But I'm still not black enough.

Can my features or my dialect tell you if I'm enough of anything?

If I could tell you where my African blood came from, could you do the same?

And no, I'm not trying to say to totally dismiss my ethnicity, but in all actuality I'm just me.

Not just black, not just Korean, just me.

- I'm black Japanese and Native American.

I hope that it sheds some light on the unique challenges that mixed race people have, dealing with identity and the push and pull from multiple communities that they encompass.

But then you asked me and I said unapologetically without second thought, I'm Buddhist.

But you didn't hear me you heard, I'm not Christian.

Not baptized, not saved, not right.

No good.

- My mom is Sri Lankan and my dad's black.

I, we didn't grow up with my father in my life and so my mom raised me and my brother.

Everything about our lives growing up was very Sri Lankan.

My mom you know she'll try to be more understanding but she'll say things like, "while you may be black, you must remember, that you're Sri Lankan first, and then you're black."

But [I tell her,] I love you, but you just can't teach me this.

You see, claiming my blackness has nothing to do with an absentee father it's about claiming something that completes me and makes me whole.

Because I'm Sri Lankan and I'm black, 100 percent of the time, all of the time.

- For me, calling myself Blasian was empowering because it was like accepting my whole self.

- I'm not one or the other, but that I'm both and that I don't have to pick.

- I'm still navigating my identity and I'm okay with that.

- Through storytelling we bridge those gaps and take away some of those stereotypes, really like fostering community.