POC Stories
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I am A., a Berlin-based storyteller. POC Stories is a blog relating stories of people of color and also addressing social topics. This blog aims to increase awareness of diverse identities and experiences as people of color are mostly confined by stereotypes.
POC Stories
2y ago
The scarcity of water is a race against time, a valuable element of nature, unfortunately not recognized to its true worth. Not only is scarcity truly preoccupying, the access to clean water, yet part of human rights, shifts rather to a privilege in the last decades around the world. Affecting many countries and communities, as ..read more
POC Stories
2y ago
Trigger warning: Beurette is a derogatory word. The words “beurette”, “arab”, ” Moroccan” are among the most searched keywords on French pornographic sites in 2019 and 2016. Robert Ménard, a French far-right politician, loudly claiming, on prime time TV, that he found “beurettes”, “not wearing the hijab” “sexy”; “Beurette ” is a “poetic term” for ..read more
POC Stories
2y ago
Trigger Warning: The article content can be very triggering, so be careful while reading it. The article does not aim to promote Asian fetish. It focuses on racial fetish towards East Asian communities however Asian fetish affects all Asian populations. I can not believe just by writing the title that I dated someone with an ..read more
POC Stories
3y ago
Copyrights Text credits reserved to POC Stories. Credit my work while sharing it. As I run by my own the blog, I spend a lot of time, voluntarily, by providing good quality content, basing my work on multiple reliable resources. Thank you. Many statues, reminiscing the colonial past, were damaged last summer across some countries ..read more
POC Stories
3y ago
Credits Text credits reserved to POC Stories. Credit my work. Afrofeminism is still little-known in France. Black feminism definitely had a huge influence on Afrofeminism in France but both tend to be mistaken. Their economical, social, political and cultural dynamics are part of the reasons why they stand out from one another. The choice of ..read more
POC Stories
3y ago
Emotional eating set the tempo of my life. I am going through a stressful time in pandemic times. While I am unemployed, I have to pay back a student loan and need to find as soon as possible a bread and butter job. On the other side, I would like to feel happy and fulfilment ..read more
POC Stories
3y ago
I recently quit dating apps and after reflecting on my experience, I thought it could have been very useful for me to be guided by a dating coach. It had never crossed my mind before, but it would have helped me a lot. It’s never too late, but right now I’m focusing on myself. I ..read more
POC Stories
3y ago
Do I really want to quit dating apps in times where it feels harder to cope with loneliness? Even it can be hard, I decided for my own good to quit dating apps. After using it for years, I came to the conclusions that dating apps don’t suit me, I’m constantly facing fetishization, gaslighting, harassment ..read more
POC Stories
3y ago
Disclaimer: My resources are western-orientated. We don’t even own our history. The first time I heard about the Herero and Nama genocide was during my teenage years. WIth my highschool acquaintances and friends, we were at the time engaging in deep conversations regarding many topics, including colonisation. We were puzzled on how so little German colonisation ..read more
POC Stories
3y ago
By POC Stories Education is often the subject of multiple reforms and remains a highly fragile right. ‘Your Turn’, a documentary directed by Eliza Capai, draws attention to activists initiatives, students’ protests and movements in the last decades in Brazil, through 3 protagonists, Marcela Jesus, Lukas Koka Penteado and Nayara Souza, bringing each of them ..read more