It wasn't something that ever occurred to me when I'm making work. Then I had to pay attention because I was being nominated for things. MC: I never had paid any mind to awards and things like that until I was creative in the space. How do you think that relationship should be in this day and age with those institutions? When you talk about ‘The House,’ it reminded me of institutions that have long boxed out Black and brown voices. They've definitely revived and given sort of a reverie around shows that in the past didn't exist. TV: You talked about social media's impact on Chewing Gum, and really how the relationship with audiences is so much more different now because of social media. And you may be remembering that anger I felt when somebody left poo on my doorstep, which enabled me to think about my anger as a kid, which then reminded me of something else that I got really angry about. If you remember one thing and you ponder on that memory long enough, it leads you to another one and another one. I also think once you go down a rabbit hole and you sort of hold on to.

Because their memories are a lot better than mine and they really helped ignite some of the stuff that I'd forgotten. I hold a few, and I've given some of them in this book, but talking to my friends was really helpful. I feel like I wish I had more memories from that time.

I would love to know how to access them, but I don't. Michaela Coel: That early version of the internet, I'm like, 'That can't possibly still be there!' I know they say nothing on the internet ever goes, but I'm like the first sort of wave of the webpages. How did you access those childhood memories of growing so clearly? And did you use your teenage blog to do that? Teen Vogue : Ok, so tell us about the writing process.

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