Anita, thank you for writing this, I have been hearing similar things in my sessions this week, specifically actually from women. You’ve also given me additional insight not obvious to myself as a white (Welsh) woman.
Anita it's so helpful that you and so many other Asians with a significant platform are sharing how unsettling the violence has been. I also make my kids come home early for the same reasons our parents would have. Those reasons are complex and all however linked to racism in some way.
If I had kids I'd do the same, because there is a difference, as this week has shown us :( I ended up watching the old Big Brother footage with the bullying of Shilpa Shetty and it was so obvious back then the kinds of views that some people hold about us.
Anita so much of your writing and your words express exactly how so many of us feel. Thanks for putting into writing what i’ve been struggling to process on paper. My heart is hurting so much, and i also have felt furious about the brand’s and, frankly other journalists who i admire(d) saying absolutely nothing on their feeds or stories - while their black and brown counterparts are literally frightened for their lives. it makes me despair.
Yeah I've felt the same - it makes you furious doesn't it? :( Just shows how distant our realities really are - and why we need community with other POC more than ever!
Such a heavy week for everyone, but particularly to be a brown woman in the UK.
The silver lining im trying to focus on through, is the overwhelming rejection and anti-demonstrations denouncing far-right ideology, and that the UK has just voted for a Labour govt.
If we zoom out we're going in the right direction but realistically we are a target and that feels horrible, thank you for writing so eloquently about this! x
It has been a terrible, terrible couple of weeks. Your words and perspective are so important in helping us understand how society has not been kind to so many. Thank you for sharing them, as ever.
I grew up in Southport, and walked down that very road to get to nursery from my Grandparents house, week in, week out. They still live there, less than 5 minutes away. Our community has been shocked, scared and now silenced by everything else that has erupted. It is disgusting, attitudes are disgusting, the fear that so many people are forced to live in is disgusting. My emotions have been everywhere because of this, because it hit very close to home, but these unfolding events are hitting closer to home for so many other people. I hope they (and you) know that many of us do stand in solidarity, and there are good people among the monsters, just sometimes it's hard to remember them.
I’m grateful for this inside view but it’s so bitter you have to live through this.
My kid is also growing up countryless, no longer remembering much of home but unlikely to ever feel native in our new country of residence. But we are protected by our whiteness.
Anita, thank you for writing this, I have been hearing similar things in my sessions this week, specifically actually from women. You’ve also given me additional insight not obvious to myself as a white (Welsh) woman.
Ah thanks Johanna! Sorry to hear it's been affecting people though :( Where in Wales are you? x
Definitely affecting people in West London where I am now, but originally from a village near Newport- you?
Newport Gwent? That's my hometown! I'm from Caerleon!
No way! That’s where I went to school! Lived in Llangybi,
Haha small world!! My parents are still there towards Chepstow now.
Anita it's so helpful that you and so many other Asians with a significant platform are sharing how unsettling the violence has been. I also make my kids come home early for the same reasons our parents would have. Those reasons are complex and all however linked to racism in some way.
If I had kids I'd do the same, because there is a difference, as this week has shown us :( I ended up watching the old Big Brother footage with the bullying of Shilpa Shetty and it was so obvious back then the kinds of views that some people hold about us.
Anita so much of your writing and your words express exactly how so many of us feel. Thanks for putting into writing what i’ve been struggling to process on paper. My heart is hurting so much, and i also have felt furious about the brand’s and, frankly other journalists who i admire(d) saying absolutely nothing on their feeds or stories - while their black and brown counterparts are literally frightened for their lives. it makes me despair.
Yeah I've felt the same - it makes you furious doesn't it? :( Just shows how distant our realities really are - and why we need community with other POC more than ever!
Such a heavy week for everyone, but particularly to be a brown woman in the UK.
The silver lining im trying to focus on through, is the overwhelming rejection and anti-demonstrations denouncing far-right ideology, and that the UK has just voted for a Labour govt.
If we zoom out we're going in the right direction but realistically we are a target and that feels horrible, thank you for writing so eloquently about this! x
Thank you for your words love, powerful, moving and feeling all of this so deeply 💕 Glad we have each other
It has been a terrible, terrible couple of weeks. Your words and perspective are so important in helping us understand how society has not been kind to so many. Thank you for sharing them, as ever.
I grew up in Southport, and walked down that very road to get to nursery from my Grandparents house, week in, week out. They still live there, less than 5 minutes away. Our community has been shocked, scared and now silenced by everything else that has erupted. It is disgusting, attitudes are disgusting, the fear that so many people are forced to live in is disgusting. My emotions have been everywhere because of this, because it hit very close to home, but these unfolding events are hitting closer to home for so many other people. I hope they (and you) know that many of us do stand in solidarity, and there are good people among the monsters, just sometimes it's hard to remember them.
I’m grateful for this inside view but it’s so bitter you have to live through this.
My kid is also growing up countryless, no longer remembering much of home but unlikely to ever feel native in our new country of residence. But we are protected by our whiteness.
I hate that the world is like this.
Liking this felt wrong somehow. What a horrible couple of weeks, hope those not imprisoned will crawl back where they came from.