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Recent Posts

  • Putting Up Resistance: How to Get Involved
  • Windrush: A Further Update
  • Fruit of the Lemon and the Stories of Our Elders
  • How to Get Your Reading Mojo Back
  • 2021: My Bookish Goals
  • Politics,  Race and Politics

    Putting Up Resistance: How to Get Involved

    March 28, 2021 / No Comments

    Since the beginning of 2020 it seems like there has been just one tragedy after another. The pandemic. The government’s mishandling of it, causing over 120,000 deaths. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. The performative responses to the BLM protests. The murders of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry, and the disgusting Met police officers who took selfies with their dead bodies. Police brutality in both the US and the UK. The murder of Sarah Everard. The UK becoming a fascist state (see: The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill). The clear corruption of this government (77k on eyebrows?!). All of us have been affected in some way by the events of the…

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    Sara B.
  • Windrush

    Windrush: A Further Update

    February 22, 2021 / No Comments

    The Windrush Generation is STILL fighting for justice. I’m going to keep this post brief and limit it to events that have transpired in the last few months. Why? Because if you’ve been reading this blog for a while you will already know what I think and how I feel about the scandal, the Home Office, Priti Patel and the very racist fabric of this country. None of that has changed. If anything, those feelings have intensified, and every day I see the news it is a concerted effort not to explode into a fiery ball of rage. Anyway, I digress. What’s the update? Issues with the Compensation Scheme As…

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    Sara B.

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    Priti Patel and the Dangers of the Home Office

    December 6, 2020

    The Jamaica Deportation Charter Flights: The Fallacies

    February 29, 2020

    National Windrush Day has passed. Where do we go from here?

    July 12, 2019
  • Book Reviews,  Purple Book Club

    Fruit of the Lemon and the Stories of Our Elders

    February 14, 2021 / No Comments

    Synopsis “Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job in TV and the perfect flatshare. But neither is that perfect – and nor are her relations with her overbearing, though always loving family. Furious and perplexed when her parents announce their intention to retire back home to Jamaica, Faith makes her own journey there, where she is immediately welcomed by her Aunt Coral, keeper of a rich cargo of family history. Through the weave of her aunt’s storytelling a cast of characters unfolds stretching back to Cuba and Panama, Harlem and Scotland, a story that passes through London and sweeps through continents.” – Goodreads For me, Fruit of the Lemon…

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    Sara B.

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    The Vanishing Half: Love, Identity & Empathy

    November 22, 2020

    Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

    April 30, 2020
  • Bookish Articles,  Purple Book Club

    How to Get Your Reading Mojo Back

    January 12, 2021 / 1 Comment

    When the world first began to properly grapple with COVID-19 and we went into lockdown, some of us pledged to use that time to work on ourselves: to learn a new language or instrument, to learn to cook, or to finally make time for reading. But the truth, that many of us weren’t prepared for, is that living through a pandemic is hard. Being in lockdown is hard. And for people who were still working full-time, that free time we thought would materialise simply did not. I was one of the people who wanted to make the most of lockdown and upskill, especially as I was not in full-time employment.…

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    Sara B.

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    On ‘Diversifying’ Your Bookshelf

    October 12, 2020

    2021: My Bookish Goals

    January 4, 2021

    Purple Book Club: 5 Books that Have Shaped Me & Why

    May 11, 2020
  • Bookish Articles,  Purple Book Club

    2021: My Bookish Goals

    January 4, 2021 / No Comments

    At the end of 2019 I wrote a post detailing my reading pledges for 2020. This was, of course, pre-pandemic and I was looking forward to the new year and feeling hopeful. Suffice it to say, I didn’t meet those pledges. I started my reading challenge, but then lockdown and the difficulties it brought to other areas of my life (which I wrote about here), meant that I hit a reading slump as my mind was constantly elsewhere. In February, I broke my pledge not to buy any new books for the first six months of the year when I attended an author event with Candice Carty-Williams and Sareeta Domingo.…

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    Sara B.

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    How to Get Your Reading Mojo Back

    January 12, 2021

    The Bluest Eye and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy

    August 17, 2020

    Purple Book Club: 5 Books that Have Shaped Me & Why

    May 11, 2020
  • Race and Politics,  Windrush

    Priti Patel and the Dangers of the Home Office

    December 6, 2020 / No Comments

    Another week, another example of despicable and dangerous behaviour from the Home Office. As you all ought to be aware, on 2 December a deportation flight to Jamaica took off. It was dubbed #Jamaica50 on Twitter and Instagram because 50 people were due to be deported. As campaigners such as BARAC UK rallied for public support to get the flight stopped, lawyers representing the deportees worked tirelessly and into the early hours of the morning of the 2nd to have those wrongfully put on that flight removed. When the flight took off, only 13 of the original 50 were on it. Let’s read that again. Only 13 people out of the…

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    Sara B.

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    #GE2019: Anti-Semitism and the Erasure of Minority Voices

    December 9, 2019

    Windrush Scandal: Why the Personal is Political

    August 22, 2018

    Putting Up Resistance: How to Get Involved

    March 28, 2021
  • Book Reviews,  Purple Book Club

    The Vanishing Half: Love, Identity & Empathy

    November 22, 2020 / No Comments

    Synopsis “The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation,…

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    Sara B.

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    Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

    April 30, 2020

    Fruit of the Lemon and the Stories of Our Elders

    February 14, 2021
  • The Personal

    Happy Birthday to Me: A Love Letter to Myself

    November 9, 2020 / 1 Comment

    WARNING: omphaloskepsis I’ll be 32 years old tomorrow. If you had asked me ten years ago what I envisioned my life to be now, I’m not entirely sure what I would have told you, but I don’t think I would have envisioned what my life actually is. I wouldn’t have seen myself as a 32-year-old career changer. I would have seen myself as established in my career (at the time I wanted to be a barrister); I wouldn’t have seen myself as a former teacher/Subject Leader – I wouldn’t have seen myself in education at all. I wouldn’t have seen myself transitioning towards a career in commercial law; in fact,…

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    Sara B.

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    Black Death and Why I Am Finding My Faith Again

    August 31, 2020

    Rules of Engagement: Why We Need to Be Respectful of Minorities’ Time and Space

    February 12, 2019

    Adoption: why is it seen as the lesser option?

    September 16, 2018
  • Bookish Articles,  Purple Book Club

    On ‘Diversifying’ Your Bookshelf

    October 12, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Over the summer, as the Black Lives Matter protests took hold across the globe and non-Black people began to realise that our lives actually do matter, there was a surge in buying books about race and racism. In June Reni Eddo-Lodge became the first Black British author to top the UK’s official book charts with her fantastic book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. Newspapers and magazines started publishing anti-racist reading lists for those who wanted to “learn more.” And of course, people posted their black squares (that’s not book related, but I just had to throw it in there because I found it so hilarious…

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    Sara B.

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    The Bluest Eye and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy

    August 17, 2020

    2021: My Bookish Goals

    January 4, 2021

    Purple Book Club: 5 Books that Have Shaped Me & Why

    May 11, 2020
  • Race

    The Myths of British Progressiveness

    September 27, 2020 / No Comments

    About a week ago, a video of a BBC journalist interviewing the Prime Minister of Barbados made the rounds on Twitter. If you didn’t know already, as well as the removal of the Queen as Head of State, Barbados has announced plans to hold a referendum on gay marriage. The BBC journalist questioned Mia Mottley on this, asking her if, in Barbados, “people should be allowed to be gay.” Mottley, quite rightly, found the question offensive and asked the journalist if that was a question he would ask the UK, to which he sanctimoniously responded “well we have laws on gay marriage, you’re having a referendum on gay marriage so…

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    Sara B.

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    Why I’m Saying Bye to ‘BAME’

    June 15, 2020
    Duke and Duchess of Sussex

    Meghan: A Story of British Racism

    January 12, 2020

    Why Black Excellence Will Not Defeat Racism

    July 26, 2020
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About PHV

Hi and welcome to Purple Hued Views! This blog and online bookclub brings together a womanism-influenced view of life and a love of literature. I’m all about having genuine conversations about issues of race, gender (and so much more) and how people like me are affected by them in everyday life. I’m also a massive bibliophile and I love talking about books! So if that floats your boat then join me in looking at life through this lens.

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