With each relationship, I accepted the fetishisation of the curly-haired, mixed-race babies I could provide.
I often wondered if that was what my boyfriend’s parents thought when they saw me too but batted the thought away. Others shuddered at the thought of it, insisting their parents would ‘kill them’ if they brought someone of another race home – despite the fact I had been in their homes several times. I watched a few of my white friends date Black men.
With each relationship, I accepted the fetishisation of the curly-haired, mixed-race babies I could provide (Picture: Jazmin Duribe)