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By Michael Baggs
image copyrightPhoebe Jameson I d say at worst I was receiving 100 death threats a day online, Phoebe Jameson tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. I have nearly 10,000 accounts blocked.
We ve all struggled over the past year, going in and out of lockdown, but for 19-year-old Phoebe there s been no escape online.
She was first trolled after posting body positive photos and messages on social media.
And she reckons the pandemic made things worse.
A photo Phoebe posted to mark International Women s Day in March last year sparked a torrent of abuse and attracted hundreds of comments about how she looked.
BBC News
By Michael Baggs
image copyrightNetflix We re so used to seeing black characters defined by white people, Viola Davis tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. And when they re defined by white people, their voice gets taken away, their sexuality gets taken away. They are defined in the image of - take what I m about to say with a grain of salt - but I m gonna say it, they are defined in the mind-set of the oppressor.
She s chatting on a Zoom call with a group of mostly white, European journalists about her new movie, Ma Rainey s Black Bottom.
It s an adaptation of a 1982 August Wilson play about the blues singer Ma Rainey, set in a recording studio on a hot summer day in 1920s Chicago.