Welcome to Racialicious!
by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Thank you for visiting us here at Racialicious (formerly known as Mixed Media Watch). This is a blog about anything and everything at the intersection of race and pop culture.
So, what’s new?
New Name
Those of you who listen to our podcast, Addicted to Race, probably recognize the name from a regular segment we used to do on the show. So why did we pick it for this blog? Well, we thought it captured the spirit of what this blog will be like: irreverent, funny, pop culture-obsessed, but still with a critical eye towards issues of race and racism.
New Domain/URL
Of course, with the new name comes a new domain name as well. So please make sure you update your bookmarks and blogrolls! From now on this will be the new home of our blog. We will keep our Jan 2005 – Sep 2006 archives at the old www.mixedmediawatch.com domain and if you really want to go way back, you can still check out our 2004 archives at the old Xanga site.
New Ways to Subscribe
With the new domain name come new RSS feeds! To receive email updates whenever we put up a new post, click here. To subscribe to our RSS feed in your feedreader, click here. No idea what the heck we’re talking about? Not to worry, you’re not alone. Check out this excellent, easy-to-follow explanation of what RSS is all about.
New Email Address
Update your address books! Our new email address is team@racialicious.com.
New, Narrower Focus
Our old blog was a bit of a catch-all. Although our main focus was media, we would often also cover topics like parenting, education, the workplace and so on. Racialicious will be firmly focused on race as it relates to pop culture. Not to worry though, we still care very much about those other topics. So much, in fact, that they will each be getting their own blog in the weeks to come! We believe that organizing the info this way will allow for even deeper and more precise discussions.
As always, we’re looking for tips on stories we should cover from all of you. And if you’d like to be a guest contributor, check out this page for more information.
We hope you enjoy this revamped blog! Email us with your feedback, ideas and suggestions. 
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
CW wrote:
Congrats on the new design. Thought you might like this post from Kottke: http://www.kottke.org/06/09/more-on-big-mike
all the best,
c
Posted 25 Sep 2006 at 10:28 pm ¶
P.Moore wrote:
Well aren’t you two just the most dynamic duo in the universe! Congrats on the launch. Keep up the amazing work.
Posted 25 Sep 2006 at 11:56 pm ¶
Meg wrote:
Does the change mean mixed race issues are no longer a focus here. I’d find that dissapointing since that was the attraction way back in the eurasiannation days then through to MMW………… i realise MMW kinda branched out to all sorts of areas but it would be a shame since there’s not a lot on mixed race stuff especially if it’s not black/white.
But anyway it looks cool and nothing seems to have broken – too easy right?
Posted 26 Sep 2006 at 12:01 am ¶
Chookooloonks wrote:
Congratulations on the evolution — and I’m so proud to be a friend of Racialicious!
Call on me for help, if ever needed,
K.
Posted 26 Sep 2006 at 3:38 am ¶
Yem Blake wrote:
Welcome back!
The new look is great,
I’m spreading the word in the uk.
Keep up the good work!
Yem
http://www.yemisiblake.com
Posted 26 Sep 2006 at 4:56 am ¶
CVK wrote:
Thanks for the good wishes, everyone!
Meg, actually we’ve been moving away from a sole mixed/interracial focus for some time now on Mixed Media Watch — we just never officially announced it. So Racialicious won’t really be hugely different from MMW.
Not to worry though — we will definitely continue to cover mixed/interracial issues because after all, that’s the perspective that Jen and I come from ourselves.
What is different from the early Mixed Media Watch days is that we’ll do less of “mixed-spotting” – those posts when we used to say “hey there’s a mixed character on this show” or “hey there’s an interracial couple in this commercial.”
Posted 26 Sep 2006 at 6:18 am ¶