Leanne Gayle

Former BBC Digital Content Apprentice. 

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Epigram • 9th December 2018

Navigating Freshers' with Microaggressions

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.
8th December 2018

How I Deal With Dyspraxia In The Workplace

How do you keep a job when you struggle with organisation, thought processing and memory skills?
University of Bristol • 22nd March 2017

Black British actors should take leading roles in the US

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’.
University of Bristol • 14th March 2017

Idris Elba is coming to Motion

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.
University of Bristol • 9th December 2016

Owen Jones comes to Bristol

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.
University of Bristol • 12th November 2016

Why the Riverside halls are the best

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.
University of Bristol • 10th October 2016

No more free coffee at Waitrose

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.
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