Claire Sachiko (left) Lex Shu (right) of Recipes Against Racism
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Claire & Lex
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• Updated: 02/05/2021
“Go back to your country” or “you don’t belong here” are just some of the choice words Lex Shu Chan has been subject to since moving from Hong Kong to the UK for their studies almost 20 years ago.
“One particular incident that I remember is having chicken bones hurled at me by a group of drunk men as they aggressively recited items off a Chinese takeaway menu” 38-year-old Lex recalls.
Claire Sachiko Fourel, 36, from London, tells a similar story. “I grew up in the UK and have been told things like ‘get back on the boat’, or have people aggressively mime ‘slitty eyes’ at me on the street. I have been spat at, asked if I was allowed to work in the UK. While I was at university, I was told that I was undateable because I wasn’t white by a fellow student, while on the other end of the spectrum experienced being sexually fetishised from around the age of 12 by random strangers due to the geisha trope.”