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S3, Ep7 How to Fail: Sharmaine Lovegrove

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Failure to Conform to Other People's Perceptions of You

I'm very much an intersectional feminist and people expect me to be fully right on about women, about everything. Just because you're a woman, it doesn't mean that I'm always going to agree with everything that you say. And so as a black woman, I was brought up by black people telling me that I wasn't black enough. Then I've never not for a second of my life being a black woman. The same from white people who expects me to be kind of really straight or something. But I'm also also like a complex individual who likes to navigate the world. So when people want me to be this one thing, it disappoints them, I think.

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