 The Me Black History Month is a means to an end. It's really an opportunity for black people to come together to talk about issues that we face, to talk about how we celebrate being black, literally all of these incredible things that we're able to do during the month of October in the UK to talk about things like what it means to be black and British. I think it's a very powerful way that we can actually sort of kind of unionise and yeah talk about these things that we don't usually get to talk about. The reason why I say that it's a means to an end is because I think mostly with Black History Month it gives a lot of people an opportunity to talk about those things but sort of almost relegate them to only happen within that month and I think that these are conversations that are so important that need to happen kind of throughout the year as opposed to just in one month so things like what it means to be black and queer in spaces that's a conversation that I think is important to happen constantly because I'm not just black and queer in the month of October, I'm black and queer for my whole life so actually having these conversations throughout um sort of throughout the year and being able to talk about those things are just as important so that's why I think that Black History Month to me is incredibly important and a means to an ends in the sense that it needs to um it allows us to have the opportunity to talk about these things and actually discuss and um sort of like educate people on on what it means to be black but equally those are conversations that should be happening throughout the year as well.