'What shocks me is that you hear about the lack of representation at Oxbridge but seeing it for yourself is a completely different ball game.'
. “If you are the only one noticing this issue you do feel this burdening responsibility to speak about it,” Chelsea says, explaining that neither of them anticipated they would have the motivation to become activists when they first started university."If you don't want to fight, it's hard to just let it slide," Ore adds."The burdened precede you and its the burden we didn't ask for.
Experiences of racism, institutional or otherwise, will obviously affect life after university too. After graduating from Cambridge this year, Chelsea has now found a graduate role in the city, and is all too aware of how daunting it is that for the rest of her life she has to unapologetically occupy up space as a black woman. “That’s a privilege that we are just not given as black women, it's just sad" she says."It's a fight that's really endless.
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