My Brown Son Just Went Back To College

And as a Black mother, my anxiety is skyrocketing again

Rebecca Stevens
ILLUMINATION-Curated
3 min readAug 28, 2021

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Photo by Etty Fidele on Unsplash

Yesterday was a day of goodbyes. After a year and a half break from his studies due to the Covid 19 pandemic, my mixed-race son went back to university in Canada.

We are a close-knit family, so I was sad to see him leave. His bedroom still smells of him, there is still his…

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Rebecca Stevens
ILLUMINATION-Curated

I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.