Where Are You From?

Hello {{ first name | friends}},

It's weird, but every so often I realise I've been processing my feelings about racism for longer than I thought. This work in progress, for example, is from mid-2019.

I've been having conversations with some of my friends recently and it turns out that, though we're all racialised as Black, we feel differently about the question "where are you from"? For me, it's often about the intent behind the question. When the point is to other me, it can be painful, which i...