![]() ![]() How should people engage with those who don’t share their views? ![]() You had a showdown with a Donald Trump supporter on BBC Newsnight over race in the election. But when it comes to sexism, I find that kind, intelligent, loving people often want me to prove that gender injustice exists. People who just never ask me to prove that anti-black racism exists. I felt lonely because the people I love, the people I spend time with, are mostly - and these are people who are not just black, so people from different parts of the world, different races - people who get anti-black racism. ![]() But I have often felt lonely in my anger about sexism. It’s not a suggestion somehow that sexism is worse than racism, because I don’t think so. You write that you are angrier about sexism than racism. It’s the idea of a woman being her full, separate self. A woman having a job is kind a pushback to that idea. I think to be female is often to be encouraged to measure your worth based on how much of yourself you’re able to sacrifice. But I also don’t think that that’s a reason not to have a job, particularly if you’re a woman. I think of course the ideal is you love your job, but the reality is that many people don’t. Why do you think it’s good for a mother to have a job, even if it isn’t a job she loves?īecause one of my favorite sayings in Igbo translates very loosely to ‘A woman must have her own.’ And that’s why. ![]()
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