‘I’m Bengali, my boyfriend had been black colored – and my mum freaked down’

‘I’m Bengali, my boyfriend had been black colored – and my mum freaked down’

Five days later on, disaster struck.

Salma learned her partner was indeed with an other woman the entire time and that she too had simply offered delivery. It absolutely was as if her mum’s worst worries about black colored guys had come true, her stereotypes confirmed.

Silence, stress and passive violence filled Salma’s life – and plunged her into a depression that is deep.

“For my mum, it felt like she unexpectedly had two children to maintain – me personally and my child. She’d wake us both up, feed us and appear from everybody else. after us, but while constantly ensuring she hid us”

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