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Racism & Anti-Blackness Reflections

White people will get me killed: on how they triggered my depression, anxiety and panic attacks

Dear children of the sun, after two years I am ready to tell you something I only shared with a very few people. A few days ago, my cousin and I had a very long conversation about many different things and then…we started talking about depression. We are two extremely similar people and have had […]

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On the violence and toxicity of Whiteness (Part 1)

The following posts will be about my life experience around White people and how my relationship with them and understanding of racism changed before and after having lived in Birmingham, UK. Spending a year in Great Britain taught a lot about racism, White supremacy, Whiteness, Blackness, Africanness, colonialism and it helped me understand why some things were […]

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#YesAllWhitePeople

All White people are racist and when I say all I mean every single one of them. Those who live in the UK, in Europe, in the Americas, in South Africa, in Australia…it’s not a generalisation or an over-simplification, it’s the truth and sorry it will hurt you. No, not really. The (Oxford) definition of […]