‘why is it always on public transport?’ – racist threats have shaped, but not defeated me
- Written by: Preeti Maharaj, PhD candidate, education and identity, Victoria University
Preeti MaharajBlack Inc.I am 14. It is 1991. It is a Wednesday. I am in Year 9.
“N—-r! N—-r!”
To get to school in inner-city South Melbourne from Sunbury in the outer northwest, it takes me an hour and a half. I have to catch two trains, a tram and then walk. This is the price for a brown immigrant girl of attending a...
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