My Dating App Matches Revealed My Subconscious Racism

It turns out I wasn’t nearly as woke as I thought

Kelsey Gilchrist
Momentum
Published in
4 min readJul 8, 2020

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When I was single and new to Toronto, my main activities consisted of swiping on dating apps and complaining about how frustrated I was with dating apps.

I went through the familiar cycle of obsessing over photos, bios, matches, and openers, then getting frustrated…

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Kelsey Gilchrist
Momentum

Toronto-based writer and marketing strategist