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Bernardine Evaristo: living as a lesbian made me stronger – The Guardian
Booker prize winner recalls angry decade as part of ‘counter-cultural, black womanist’ community
Bernadine Evaristo, the first black woman to win the Booker prize and a co-founder of Britains first black theatre company, has spoken of an angry, lesbian period she went through in the 1980s and of a decade spent living in a black womanist community.
Although she looks back on it now as fun, at the time she was very angry as a woman, she says.
I had a period of about 10 years where I lived as a lesbian, and that was my identity, she said on BBC Radio 4s Desert Island Discs. I used to go on l…
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