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Being Tired Can Change Everything

Youtube, good exhaustion, child Q, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe/Annosheh Ashoori

AnooshehAshoori, black, ChildQ, creativenonfiction, feelings, god, hope, journalism, London, NazaninZaghariRatcliffe, new, nonfiction, Personal, Racism, reflection, stories, thoughts, unfiltered, youtube

Stories from the 2021

I’m bloody tired

2021, 2022, acceptance, black, Blackbrits, creativenonfiction, dreams, feelings, god, hope, lessons, life, newyear, newyearsresolutions, nonfiction, Personal, unfiltered, values

A week of thoughts #1

It feels awkward, suspicious to be someone of few opinions.

antivaxxers, black, Coronavirus, creativenonfiction, diary, feelings, nature, nonfiction, opinion, Personal, personalanechdote, thoughts, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories

RIP Elijah McClain

A fully alive, fully outstretched black person taking up as much space as they need is the most frightening black person, so be scary.

advice, black, blackness, creativenonfiction, ElijahMcClain, feelings, institutionalracism, Multifaceted, nonfiction, Personal, Policebrutality, Racism, reflection, stories, thoughts, twoyears, unfiltered

EU-ROPE-ING while Black: one story

They just watched us get darker and darker, welcoming in the deeper glow, disgusted. But what could they do?

black, blackbritain, blackness, blacktravellers, creativenonfiction, europe, god, lessons, London, mallorca, nonfiction, personalanechdote, Racism, reflection

Come Out Swinging: Boxing saves

A long read on boxing’s saviour role in the lives of London’s young boys from inside a local youth boxing club, written months before the world lost its head

black, blackbritain, blackness, boxing, governmentcuts, guncrime, institutionalracism, journalism, knifecrime, London, nonfiction, Racism, untoldstories, values, youth

Stories from the 22

Reflections from aged 22 on the eve of 23.

advice, anechdote, black, Blackbrits, creativenonfiction, feelings, lessons, life, nonfiction, Personal, refection, stories, thoughts, unfiltered, values

Let feelings be

It is just a feeling. But why do I do that with feelings? Feelings are not always thoughts, not always stories. They’re felt, sometimes that is all.

anechdote, black, blackbritain, creativenonfiction, emotions, feelings, god, nonfiction, Personal, thoughts

BLACK, BRITISH, ANXIOUS: A 2021 GUIDE TO BLACK ANXIETY

The Black British experience of 2020 left us in need of a 2021 guide to Black anxiety: featuring psychologist Julie Baah and visual artist Mimi Koku.

Anxiety, Austerity, black, Blackbrits, Blacklivesmatter, Blackmentalhealth, Community, Coronavirus, Film, Gaslighting, institutionalracism, journalism, Mentalhealth, Mentalhealthact, nonfiction, Psychology, Racialanxiety, Racism, Stigma
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