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Where do I start? There’s so much going on in the world: from a very fiery presidential race in the US where the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, spouts hatred towards Muslims, Mexicans and women, and does not have a care for the state of race relations in America. I’m not saying Hillary is perfect, but… Then we have France, where attempts to police women’s morality with a racist and sexist burkini ban (thankfully now revoked but reminding us yet again of the sexism and Islamophobia faced by French Muslim women). Here in the UK we are seeing Prime Minister Theresa May leading the Brexit negotiations and warning of “difficult times” ahead. No matter which way you voted or how one wishes to dress this up, the Leave campaign was built on scaremongering around immigration and scapegoating migrants. Not to mention, the possible scrapping of the Human Rights Act to usher in a watered down so-called Bill of Rights.