The Slumflower: how can we be better in 2019?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
At Beyond Today we’re determined to be cheerful about 2019. And to help us kick off the year on a positive foot we’ve been talking to Chidera Eggerue, better known as The Slumflower. She created #SaggyBoobsMatter, a body positive campaign asking for acceptance of women’s bodies no matter their shape or size or perkiness. Chidera explains how we can all bring empathy and tolerance to the way we live our lives in 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price. This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | Every day we ask one big question. Today, how can we be better in 2019? |
| 0:27.0 | Happy New Year, |
| 0:31.0 | Happy New Year, Nico New Year, Nico. |
| 0:33.0 | Bon Anay! |
| 0:35.0 | Bonanay! |
| 0:36.0 | Harriet, Jar-Ja, welcome back. |
| 0:38.0 | We're going to start 2019 with a woman who led one of the online movements of the past few years, |
| 0:44.2 | SAGI Boob's Matter. It was a body positive conversation about self-worth. |
| 0:49.2 | She published a book dealing with similar themes in 2018, what a time to be alone it was called, |
| 0:54.4 | and she ended the year here at the BBC as a guest editor for the Radio 4 Today program. |
| 0:59.4 | She brought her thinking and the people that she celebrates to the airwaves. |
| 1:02.8 | Her name is Chidera Eggaroo. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm Chidera, popular known online as the slumflower. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm the creator of hashtag Saggy Theb's Matter. |
| 1:11.6 | The slumflower is a troublemaker and why I describe myself as a troublemaker is because you can't create change without causing a bit of trouble and trouble essentially is disruption so you've got to make people |
| 1:24.1 | uncomfortable in order for them to see that this isn't right and I think why I find it |
| 1:29.1 | important to label myself a troublemaker is to just really reclaim that title because something |
| 1:34.3 | like being called a troublemaker is seen as quite negative it's seen as you |
| 1:38.5 | you know being a big mischief but for me a troublemaker is someone who actually provokes people |
| 1:46.7 | and that provocation could either be a good thing or a birthing but for the most part I think it's a good thing |
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