7th January 2019 in Cardiff, UK, Sohaib Khan, a muslim activist in a conversation about the rise of Islamophobia in the UK where Anti-Muslim attacks rose by 26% last year with most occurring face-to-face rather than on social media. "I mean, with me personally, I haven't ever been threatened physically, which is a really good thing, but there's something else which I want to talk about, which is the cultural racism associated with Islamophobia and on numerous times, I've been in situations where it's so accepted culturally that people don't even point it out as sort of racist."

8th of February in Cardiff, UK, Sahar Al-Faifi explains how she left her job at the Heath hospital in Cardiff due to racist attacks where she worked treating cancer patients. She decided to take a break from her occupation and get involved with campaigns and she became an activist along with Hayaat Womens Trust. "I spent five years working in the NHS however, I was most of the time the sharp end of racism and Islamophobia not only in the street, but sometimes even in the hospital. It was quite traumatizing for me at that time because I just could not understand at the beginning why people would treat me like this but I don't have the victim mentality. So, I thought you know what, I will fight it and I will lead the fight against it by leaving my profession temporary to tackle the issue and it was, in fact, part of my healing process."

20th of March 2019 in Cardiff, Ayesha Abdol-Hamid, said she got into fights because of the colour of her skin, and people in balaclavas intimidated her family at home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot. She was given a black eye after receiving abuse when she arrived in Wales, making her and her family flee to Cardiff.

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