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Black and mixed-race young people were also more likely to report reduced wellbeing during the pandemic than their White peers. The impact of the pandemic on minority ethnic young people was exacerbated due to a combination of increased Covid-related illness in the family, low-paid jobs, and loss of income and employment opportunities in the household, the experience of racial microaggressions and systemic racism, potentially shattering their sense of trust in others.

‘The impact of the pandemic on minority ethnic young people was sri lanka email list exacerbated due to a combination of increased Covid-related illness in the family, low-paid jobs, and loss of income and employment opportunities in the household.’

Although there has been a spike in mental ill health and self-harm in adolescent girls pre-pandemic (see for example Patalay & Fitzsimons, 2020; Rodway et al., 2020), this trend intensified during Covid-19 with more young women than men reporting emotional difficulties such as anxiety, depression and self-harm, reflecting the broader circumstances in their life (Hartas, 2024). As welfare structures have been systematically dismantled and with the rise of an individualised, de-politicised feminism, there has been a proliferation of discourses on self-expression and self-belief amid rising gender inequality and everyday sexism. Young women’s mental health has been deteriorating because the circumstances that surround their life have remained unchanged.