Tag: Racism

• A Week of Thoughts #14

  

  Happiness has declined in women and girls, while dissatisfaction in black women who use Asian-owned beauty supplies has remained about the same

  crushball

  September 22, 2023

  Uncategorized

  blackwomen, creativenonfiction, girls, happiness, nonfiction, Racism, thoughtcollections, thoughts, women

• ENCORE: EU-ROPE-ING while Black: one story

  

  I’m somewhere in Europe this week, let’s hope it goes far better than it did two years ago.

  crushball

  February 24, 2023

  black, blackbritain, blackness, blacktravellers, creative non fiction, europe, lessons, non-fiction, personalanechdote, Racism, reflection, untoldstories

  blackbritain, blacktravellers, creativenonfiction, critic, europe, nonfiction, Racism, reflection

• A Week of Thoughts #5

  

  My grandma keeps changing, I am reading a physical book because it is an important one, and I can’t hate the queen

  crushball

  September 23, 2022

  blackbritain, blackness, blacktravellers, creative non fiction, Dementia, diary, europe, family, Grandma, livingwithgrandparents, opinion, personalanechdote, Racism, reflection, thoughtcollections

  black, blackbritain, creativenonfiction, davidolusoga, Dementia, elizabethii, Grandma, nonfiction, Personal, queen, queensdeath, Racism, reflection, thoughtcollections

• Being Tired Can Change Everything

  

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

  crushball

  March 17, 2022

  black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, journalism, London, non-fiction, opinion, Racism, reflection, tired, untoldstories, untoldstories, work

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

• Black People are Real People

  

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

  crushball

  August 30, 2021

  advice, black, blackness, ElijahMcClain, feelings, lessons, non-fiction, Racism, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  advice, adviceandcritic, black, blackness, creativenonfiction, ElijahMcClain, feelings, institutionalracism, Multifaceted, nonfiction, Personal, Policebrutality, Racism, 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?

  crushball

  August 8, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, blacktravellers, creative non fiction, europe, god, lessons, London, mallorca, non-fiction, personalanechdote, Racism, reflection, travellingwhileblack, untoldstories

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

• Black Tragedy: One Familiar Story of Blackness

  

  His story isn’t unique to him. The details may be, but the overall portrait of his circumstances lend themselves to the narratives of black people murdered by the streets all over.

  crushball

  July 10, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, guncrime, institutionalracism, knifecrime, non-fiction, Racism, youth

  blackbritain, institutionalracism, knifecrime, nonfiction, Racism, reflection, youth

• 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

  crushball

  June 5, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, boxing, carshalton, governmentcuts, guncrime, institutionalracism, journalism, knifecrime, London, non-fiction, Racism, sport, untoldstories, values, youth

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

• 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.

  crushball

  February 22, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, institutionalracism, journalism, non-fiction, personalanechdote, Racism, untoldstories

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