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Purple Hued Views

– a womanist blog

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Recent Posts

  • 2022: New Year, New Thing?
  • Me and My ‘Mental Ruts’
  • Windrush: The Ongoing Battle for Justice
  • Putting Up Resistance: How to Get Involved
  • Windrush: A Further Update
  • 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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    The Bluest Eye and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy

    August 17, 2020

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

    September 25, 2018

    Why I’m Saying Bye to ‘BAME’

    June 15, 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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    #SurvivingAbuse: Three Reasons Black People Need to Stop Caping for Sexual Abusers

    January 20, 2019

    Giving Blood: Why More Black People Ought to Do It

    August 28, 2019

    Why I’m Saying Bye to ‘BAME’

    June 15, 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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    Sara B.

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

    May 11, 2020

    On ‘Diversifying’ Your Bookshelf

    October 12, 2020

    2021: My Bookish Goals

    January 4, 2021
  • Uncategorized

    Why ‘Purple Hued Views?’

    October 4, 2018 / No Comments

      When I first floated the idea of this blog to friends and family, the first question I was asked was “Why Purple Hued Views?” I had to explain each and every time, and I figured it would stand to reason that everyone else reading this blog would ask the same question, so this is my (very short) blog post to explain. Naturally, I wanted the name of my blog to reflect what it is fundamentally about.  Like everyone else, my core beliefs and my experiences frame the way I look at the world and inform the issues I am passionate about.  I am, to put it simply, a Black…

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    Sara B.

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    January 1, 2022
  • Race

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

    September 25, 2018 / No Comments

    I guess you could consider this a public service announcement.  To all the people who say/have ever said things like, “I don’t see colour/race,” this is a message for you.  Unless you are genuinely, medically diagnosed as colour blind, you are a liar. You can see colour because it is clearly there on display for you to see. If what you mean is that you don’t consciously (and I stress the word ‘consciously’) allow your recognition of someone’s colour to dictate your opinions of them and the assumptions you make about them, then that’s all well and good but you need to SAY THAT. You may be thinking that I’m…

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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

    Giving Blood: Why More Black People Ought to Do It

    August 28, 2019
  • The Personal

    Adoption: why is it seen as the lesser option?

    September 16, 2018 / 3 Comments

      CN/TW: This post contains graphic descriptions of childbirth. I’m nearly 30. As is the custom, I’m at that age where older family members and some older friends start asking me questions that are not only intrusive but are actually really annoying. “When are you going to get married?” “Do you want to have children? When are you going to have them?” If I’m lucky, I might get away with just that. If not, I’ll hear some dreaded reference to my biological clock, and I’ll have to try really hard not to kiss my teeth – this time not solely out of annoyance but also out of resignation, because I…

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    Sara B.

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    Happy Birthday to Me: A Love Letter to Myself

    November 9, 2020

    Me and My ‘Mental Ruts’

    August 1, 2021

    Black Death and Why I Am Finding My Faith Again

    August 31, 2020
  • Race and Politics,  Windrush

    Windrush Scandal: Why the Personal is Political

    August 22, 2018 / No Comments

      Below is an adapted version of a sermon I delivered at St. Peter de Beauvoir Town Church in May 2018. I know that everyone will know what the Windrush scandal is and how it came into being as there has been a lot of coverage of it in the news, so I won’t go into any detail about its history. Instead, I will start off by reinforcing the reality of the situation for those affected by the scandal – the impact of this injustice should never be forgotten. Despite numerous promises, platitudes and assurances from various government officials, scores of West Indians are in limbo, either stranded in the…

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    Sara B.

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

    December 9, 2019

    Priti Patel and the Dangers of the Home Office

    December 6, 2020

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

    July 12, 2019
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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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