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I attempted Simone Anderson’s Lockdown Cleaning Challenge and I learnt a life lesson
I am endlessly fascinated by social media personalities, it’s hard not to be…
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Stuck in the middle: Racism & being mixed race in Aotearoa
I exist somewhere between two races, two realities, and two histories. For my whole life I have been classified on government documents as an ‘other’. Growing up in Aotearoa, there has never been a neat and tidy tick box for me to belong to. My mother is New Zealand Pākehā and my father was African American. I am mixed race, neither here nor there. Ambiguous. Inbetween.
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Never Have I Ever, written a racially charged thinkpiece on a Netflix show
Despite the show displaying mad stereotypes and several healthy doses of second-hand embarrassment, I loved it.