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ποΈ 11 June 2020
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My guest today is the brilliant Candice Brathwaite, Sunday Times Bestselling author of I Am Not Your Baby Mother. The book has been called 'an urgent part-memoir, part-manifesto about Black British motherhood' in Red magazine. When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the photos of women in glossy magazines and Mumsnet and she found herself wondering: "Where are all the black mothers?".
Candice started blogging about motherhood in 2016 and is the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse β an online initiative that aims to encourage a more accurately representative and diverse depiction of motherhood in the media.
Candice's book I am Not Your Baby Mother is urgent, inspirational, funny, and very very important. It talks about her own childhood, pregnancy, how Black British women are 5 times more likely to die in childbirth, (and lots of eye-opening statistics that you will never forget), and the reality of living with racial micro-aggressions and unconscious bias at every point. It's one of the most important books I've read all year and I think it should be in schools. Candice writes with such humour, poignancy and depth - I love her straight-talking style and everyone should read it. Please do buy a copy. Hope you enjoy this episode, if you did please leaving a rating or review, thanks!
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1:05.7 | Control-Lock Delete Podcast. My guest today is the brilliant Candise |
1:09.9 | Brathwaite, best-selling author of I am not your baby mother. She is one of the |
1:14.9 | observer's 20 rising stars for 2020. When Candice fell pregnant and stepped |
1:20.4 | into the world of motherhood, she found that her experience bore little resemblance |
1:25.1 | to the photos in glossy magazines and Mumsnet, |
1:28.6 | and she found herself wondering, |
1:29.9 | where are all the black mothers? |
1:32.2 | Candies started blogging about motherhood in 2016 and she is the |
1:36.7 | founder of Make Motherhood Diversity, an online initiative that aims to encourage a more accurately representative and diverse depiction of motherhood in the media. |
1:46.1 | Candice's book I am not your baby mother is urgent, inspirational, funny, very very important and I gobbled it up. I loved reading it. It was hard to read in places, but also written in Candice's signature, humorous style, but with such poignancy and depth. |
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