*Trigger Warning – Contains content relating to sexual abuse and assault; some explicit language.**

Eternity Martis is a Toronto-based journalist, author and senior editor at Xtra. She’s now a best-selling author of her first book, “They Said This Would Be Fun – Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up.” Eternity’s work focuses on issues of race and gender, taking deep dives into her own experiences and sharing them with the world. Her stories are real, raw, and relatable.

Our conversation covers so much about the journey through writing this book and many of the topics and experiences shared within. We talk about setting boundaries and the challenge that comes with having to reassert yourself and reestablish boundaries time and time again – but how crucial that is for our physical, mental, sexual, emotional and spiritual health. We talk about what love really is – and what it isn’t, and the hard lessons that come with navigating love on it’s own.

We discuss the theme of abandonment that is laced throughout Eternity’s story, and how she’s had to navigate both gender and race as a mixed woman; her Mom from Pakistan and her Dad from Jamaica.

I get excited about all of my conversations with my guests, but there is something about the level of relatability and raw vulnerability in this conversation with Eternity that really got my heart racing.

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Eternity’s Website: www.eternitymartis.com

Eternity’s Instagram: @eterniteee

Eternity on Twitter: @eternitymartis

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