Articles in student magazines don’t often become a source of national debate. Three years after Ore Ogunbiyi wrote about navigating Cambridge University as a black woman, the piece is still making waves. It was published at the beginning of her final year, Ogunbiyi writing that she still hadn’t settled in, that she still felt slightly left out. She was frequently the only black face in the room, one of the few black faces at the university, and it had taken its toll. Nevertheless, she desperately wanted to encourage other black women to apply.

“There are lots of things we go through that are very unique to our experience,” she wrote in Letter to My Fresher Self: Surviving Cambridge as a black girl. “But