Being a Black or Indigenous woman means being at the receiving end of a whole host of societal assumptions and biases, says the support network’s founder
Boma Brown says she only began thinking of herself as a Black person when she began living in Canada.
But it also meant being at the receiving end of a whole host of societal assumptions and biases — an experience she discovered many of her Indigenous friends shared, particularly while accessing health care, she said. Brown said it was a struggle to bring up the issue of racism in health care when she first started the organization.
Brown said her organization aims to bring people together to fight the isolation and loneliness often faced by Indigenous women and women of colour.
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