i hate https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤚🏾" title="Erhobener Handrücken (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobener Handrücken (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😡" title="Schmollendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Schmollendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👈🏾" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach links (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach links (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)"> journalism! bc big publications just want me to write about my trauma and nothing else lol! if I’m not writing about it they don’t wanna hear from me n if I am, most of the time editors treat me badly!

but what also stresses me out is how they only want you to talk about ur trauma (as a black person or POC) when it suits them. I pitched a piece recently about how we shouldn’t stop protesting about a-levels because we are still left with an education system that severely

harms the mental health of their students / riddled with problems and inequality & significantly harms black well being & how we should continue with this momentum- and most publications were like https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤚🏾" title="Erhobener Handrücken (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobener Handrücken (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)"> “the alevel fiasco is over, sorry.” so when will we start caring about -

stories like this again? when another student takes their own life bc of the brutality of the education system here? when we have another blatant fiasco? why don’t we care about the everyday suffering of young people/ marginalised people/ working class people?

why do we only care when there’s a major story?

also like..all these issues are major stories ALL the time bc we live through this brutality EVERYDAY. so ofc to so many people the alevel fiasco is “”over”” when in actuality for so many we’ve hardly touched the surface of the problem. we r still left with a problematic system

this thread doesn’t make any sense I know lol it’s just rambles from my head