"We are linked through our otherness, but we are not all each other. Hearing their vastly varying voices and stories has helped me to feel that my own story is more valid."

“Since Brexit, people think that they have more autonomy to be openly racist, whereas before it was more covert.

Behind closed doors, I was known as 'Bev the Black Bitch from Brum’.” 

"Sometimes black joy is the biggest form of resistance and strength in white spaces.

If Cornwall has taught me one thing, it is that you can create your own space for joy anywhere."