"I'm 37, black, British, and female. I spent my childhood and early teen years without the inter­net, seeing barely anyone succeed who looks like me and talks like me.
 

My body is fetishised, my culture is appropriated but I am not wanted.
 

I worry about the future of my black son, my black friends, my black family, and my community.

I worry about the future of my sisters experiencing domestic violence and the intersectionality that goes alongside it.

Yes, there is no hierarchy of oppression, but intersecting barriers work against us.

Black lives have always mattered but we are not heard, we need allies and change.

We've barely scratched the surface to unravel hundreds of years of oppression.

I implore you to educate yourselves and do not ask a black person to do it for you.

We live in this skin every day and we're tired.

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A change will come, and I hope live long enough to see it."

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