Born in SF and raised in Oakland, California to Quebecois parents and sandwiched between two wonderful headaches she calls her brothers, Mathilde grew up in a contradictory city of grassroots fights for racial justice, incredible wealth foregrounded against a vast backdrop of systemic poverty, the best dim sum west of Hong Kong, and all the lessons a white ally can hope to learn from such a place. Forever entrenched in the fight to make her community proud (and addicted to any of Nintendo's creations), Mathilde hopes that her humor and insight can make the readers of HerCampus let out a rare audible hum of interest.
On Finding Creativity Again
The Newest World in Pokémon
On Being Named the Blackest White Girl MATHILDE PROVENCHER
The Myth of the Rainbow Friend Group
Three Reminders That You’re Not Actually a Bad Person for Having a Hard Time Making Friends
Nina Simone and the Inauguration; A Frought Portrait of America’s History of Anti-Blackness