Leanne Gayle

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?

Last week I started my apprenticeship at the BBC, after half a year at Bristol, I decided I wasn’t quite ready for university or rather, university was not quite ready for me. I embarked on a 3-month gruelling search over the summer for a placement, my only criteria was: media related and exciting.

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’.

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.

On the 14th October, UBEM (University of Bristol Ethnic Minorities) hosted a panel on the whitewashing of Black History titled, “Did black people exist before slavery? – Decolonizing education and rewriting black narratives”.

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.

If ever there was a time for young people to be interested in politics, it is today. On Tuesday, July 19th, the House of Commons debated the Higher Education bill to impose competition and price ranges into higher education.