"He and his friends started laughing as they did this, all while deliberately avoiding eye contact and denying me the chance to confront them," they wrote in an Instagram post."
""I didn't realise I process emotions on a 3-5 working-day delay. When I last posted [to Instagram about the incident] I thought I'd feel fine, but now I feel like cr*p," they said. "Like, total crap. I feel like I've been going through all five stages of grief multiple times a day. "I've had to take a week off work because I can't do anything without thinking it's going to happen again.""
""Cambridge does f**king suck if you're Black," they said. "If I - a random Black person - can have n****r hurled at me so comfortably, so eloquently, so unchallenged by the whole gathering of students there, then no one in their right mind would want to live here.""
Guillotina, a Black drag performer who identifies as the only Black drag performer in Cambridge, experienced racial abuse in a McDonald's in Cambridge city centre at 3am on 22 November. A member of a group of student-age people allegedly shouted the n-word while the group laughed, avoided eye contact and fled. No security assisted when the performer sought help. A police report was filed. The incident triggered delayed emotional processing, repeated grief-like reactions, and a week off work. The performer characterized the episode as emblematic of wider racism in Cambridge.
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