It is important, now more so than ever, that we uplift the voices of black women, Balchin writes. The young woman was 19-year-old Black Lives Matter activist Oluwatoyin Salau, from Tallahassee, Florida, known by her friends as Toyin. Black women fight to protect the world, but who fights to protect black women? She recognised the pathway towards black liberation is through the liberation of black girls, women, femmes and trans folk. Data shows that for black women, anxiety is more chronic and the symptoms more intense than their white counterparts.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 29, 2020 23:03 UTC