S2, Ep4 How to Fail: Otegha Uwagba
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Mental Health Problems for Black Women
I got involved in this weird Twitter spat the other week with a journalist who essentially insinuated that because I had been to Oxford, I am somehow less black or less qualified to talk about being black than her. And it's exhausting just kind of moving through the world. Like I'm constantly kind of having to code switch and reduce certain aspects of myself. That does contribute to mental health problems for black women. But I'm very sort of proudly black and I get a lot of joy out of being black. So I kind of try and tend to focus on the positives, as opposed to any of the stuff that she deal with.
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