Growing up half Japanese and half-Jamaican in Hawaii, 19-year-old Kiana Khansmith quietly struggled with misconceptions about being mixed race.
“A lot of people seemed to know who I was more than I did,” the animation student at the California College of the Arts told HuffPost.
“They would tell me what to be or how I should act based on my heritage.”When a professor in a race and comics course told the class to create a series based off personal experience, Khansmith knew exactly what to draw: a comic strip about the complexities of growing up multiracial in the U.S., as told by a character named Puppitty.
Half-dog, half-cat, Puppity looks a little different than others and doesn’t always feel like she fits in, like many of multiracial descent:
Some try to put Puppitty into boxes based off stereotypes ―…
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