And Lord, do we need those benefits! This year, we have experienced a persistent kind of personalised and politicised racialised trauma that’s saturated every aspect of our lives.

From the ways that BAME communities have been impacted disproportionately by Covid-19, to the secondary trauma experienced while witnessing the murders of our brothers and sisters, or the racial gaslighting inflicted by government reports denying institutional racism, it’s often felt like there’s been no escape from the onslaught of suffering, discourse, and debates.

For people of colour, racial justice work is all-consuming. It’s not a part-time hobby that we can just dip in and out of, and it’s not an additional interest that we can de-prioritise.

Even if we don’t identify as activists, our racial justice work can be seen in the way we overcome microaggressions and everyday prejudices; how we exist proudly, defiantly and joyfully as people of colour.

Peaks of Colour: meet the walking club by and for people of colour that’s all about radical self-care