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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
  • Purple Book Club

    Purple Book Club: My 2020 Reading Pledges

    December 22, 2019 / 2 Comments

    Every year, without fail, I pledge to read more books.  I reminisce about the days when I was much younger and I used to polish off books quicker than I’d polish off any chocolate dessert I was given (ok, that’s hyperbole).  I remember my mum buying me Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the summer before I started Year 7.  The book didn’t last me the summer as I read all 600+ pages in a day. But alas! I’m all grown up now and life routinely gets in the way of how much and how quickly I read.  I don’t have time to sit and read all day without…

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    Sara B.

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    January 12, 2021
  • Race and Politics

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

    December 9, 2019 / No Comments

    The General Election is this week.  Despite the fact that there are plenty of candidates standing for other parties, the reality facing us is that the real competition is between Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party and the Conservatives, ‘led’ by Boris Johnson.  This has been, in my opinion, one of the nastiest election campaigns in recent history, and as such I have actively tried to stay away from it as I knew where my vote was going the minute the election was called.  But among the many, many aspects of this election campaign that have seriously disturbed me, there is one issue that has really done so more than others, and…

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    Sara B.

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    March 28, 2021

    Priti Patel and the Dangers of the Home Office

    December 6, 2020

    Labour Leaks: 3 Reasons Why I, as a Black Woman, Can No Longer Support the Labour Party

    May 6, 2020
  • Race

    Giving Blood: Why More Black People Ought to Do It

    August 28, 2019 / No Comments

    A few months ago, I received a letter from the NHS informing me that I have the sickle cell trait. For those of you who are unfamiliar, sickle cell disease is a group of red blood cell disorders.  Red blood cells contain haemoglobin, which carries oxygen around the body, and people who suffer from sickle cell produce abnormally shaped red blood cells.  These ‘sickle’ shaped cells die prematurely or can get stuck in small blood vessels, blocking them and causing serious medical problems.  Sickle cell anaemia is the most serious type of sickle cell disease, and those who have it are susceptible to life-threatening infections, loss of vision or stroke and…

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    Sara B.

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    January 12, 2020

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    August 17, 2020

    To All the Friends Who Say ‘I Don’t See Race’

    September 25, 2018
  • The Personal

    Self-Doubt and the Importance of Remembering Your ‘Why’

    August 11, 2019 / 4 Comments

    WARNING: There’s going to be a lot of omphaloskepsis in this post. If you think you’re going to struggle with that, I suggest you look away now. For those of you who are staying with me, I also want to say I am no self-help guru or life expert. But life in recent months has had me mulling this over a lot, and I thought I’d share a bit of myself and one of my coping mechanisms with you. This will probably come as a surprise to those who know me personally or who have worked with me in the past, but I promise every word of what I’m about…

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    Sara B.

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    November 9, 2020

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    August 31, 2020

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

    February 12, 2019
  • Race and Politics,  Windrush

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

    July 12, 2019 / No Comments

      Saturday 22 June saw the arrival of the UK’s first official Windrush Day, a day commemorating the arrival of British citizens from the Caribbean on the Empire Windrush in 1948, and celebrating the immense contribution the Windrush generation has made to British society and economy for the last 70+ years.  Windrush Day also brought with it the announcement of a memorial dedicated to the Windrush generation in Waterloo station, where many members of the Windrush generation first arrived in London.  The announcement was met with a mixed reception, with members of the community questioning the choice of location, criticizing the lack of consultation and, quite rightly, wondering where was…

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    Sara B.

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    August 22, 2018

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    June 16, 2019

    Putting Up Resistance: How to Get Involved

    March 28, 2021
  • Race and Politics,  Windrush

    The Windrush Scandal Isn’t Over: CALL TO ACTION

    June 16, 2019 / No Comments

      Last year, the news of the Windrush scandal shot into mainstream political discourse and, rightfully, became a subject of national outrage.  Members of the Windrush generation – Caribbean people and their children who were invited here as British citizens to help rebuild Britain and fill labour shortages after World War II – suddenly found themselves being deported, fired, losing access to their benefits or pensions, losing their homes, access to healthcare and even access to their bank accounts.  Some, who had travelled abroad to see friends or family, found themselves unable to return to the UK, stranded in the countries they’d gone to visit.   Why? Because Theresa May, our soon-to-be former Prime…

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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
  • The Personal

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

    February 12, 2019 / No Comments

      I had (what I’m now going to call) a rather insightful week last week, and I learned some valuable lessons.  Lessons that I think life has been trying to teach me for some time now that I haven’t really been listening to, thinking that things are and will be fine and I can just keep going as I am because that’s just how I do things.  Well it seems 2019 is here to tell me that’s not true, and it is doing so by slapping me in the face with what is true: I am only human, and every human being has their limits.  2019 has started really well…

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    Sara B.

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    Adoption: why is it seen as the lesser option?

    September 16, 2018

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    August 11, 2019

    Happy Birthday to Me: A Love Letter to Myself

    November 9, 2020
  • Race,  Race and Gender

    #SurvivingAbuse: Three Reasons Black People Need to Stop Caping for Sexual Abusers

    January 20, 2019 / 1 Comment

      TW/CN: This post discusses sexual abuse. 2018 was hailed as the ‘Year of the Woman’, and there was much celebration of women’s achievements across the world.  Notably 2018 saw the rise of women visibly speaking out about the injustices and evils they have and continue to face – particularly sexual abuse.  The #MeToo movement, founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke – an African-American civil rights campaigner – gained greater traction in light of the Harvey Weinstein case and the sexual abuse of women became headline news.  This continued with the conviction of Bill Cosby and Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court despite Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s harrowing testimony…

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    Sara B.

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    Why I’m Saying Bye to ‘BAME’

    June 15, 2020

    Why Telling Black People They Are Aggressive IS Aggressive In Itself

    November 4, 2018

    The Myths of British Progressiveness

    September 27, 2020
  • Race

    Why Telling Black People They Are Aggressive IS Aggressive In Itself

    November 4, 2018 / No Comments

      Pretty much every Black person I know – myself included – can tell you of a time when they have been branded ‘aggressive’ or ‘intimidating’ by a white person. Get angry at someone who has done something wrong to you? Aggressive. Walking around in a group with your friends? Intimidating. Challenging any form of authority? Aggressive AND intimidating. Everywhere Black people go they have to navigate around this branding. White people constantly claim to feel threatened by us, even when we are doing normal, innocuous things.  There are a whole raft of cases I could point to in the United States of Black people having the police called for…

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    Sara B.

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    January 20, 2019
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    Meghan: A Story of British Racism

    January 12, 2020

    The Bluest Eye and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy

    August 17, 2020
  • Purple Book Club

    Purple Book Club: Our First Book!

    October 4, 2018 / 1 Comment

    Thank you for joining Purple Book Club! Ready for our first read? Drumroll please…. Sooooo…in celebration of the launch of the blog and book club, I thought it apt that our first read should be the novel from whence the site takes its title. The Color Purple by Alice Walker Studying this novel for A Level introduced me to the concept of womanism, one that has greatly influenced me as an adult (see my post on this here). As we read it over the next four weeks I’ll be updating this page and our Instagram page to have a discussion on how we’re finding the novel. If you have a…

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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.

Love, Sara B. xx

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