Leanne Gayle

Leanne studied History & Politics at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2022. She is training to be a solicitor with Magic Circle law firm Linklaters. She has worked alongside young people from disadvantaged communities through various job opportunities, such as working with The Social Mobility Foundation and volunteering organisations such as Zero Gravity.

Ex-English student and now BBC Intern, Leanne Gayle, discusses her Freshers' experience of 2016, noting various microaggressions made against her for Epigram's #WhatsMicroaggression campaign. There is a line for every POC where friendly banter turns into a microaggression. That line can only be defined by personal experience and how someone is made to feel in that moment. The spectrum of microaggressions can be wide.

How do you keep a job when you struggle with organisation, thought processing and memory skills?

Samuel L Jackson recently criticised Black British actors for taking African American roles with reference to the casting of Daniel Kaluuya in Jordan Peeles’s ‘Get Out’.

No need to wish for another season of Luther - The one and only Idris Elba is making his Bristol DJ debut in Motion on the 8th April.

Jones was the last to speak and began by drawing a distinction between the politics of hope and the politics of fear that has been so prevalent in 2016.

Why Riverside does it better - Down in the city centre, far from the desolate fields of Stoke Bishop, lay three fresher halls of beauty and brilliance – The Riverside halls.

For some of us the Waitrose coffee is more than just a coffee, it’s a gift and a status symbol that represents your middle class entitlement as you walk down Park Street with your bag for life and your reusable coffee mug.