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I Am Not Your Baby Mother By Candice Brathwaite Hardcover
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother By Candice Brathwaite Hardcover
It's about time we made motherhood more diverse...
When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and the pinned discussions on mumsnet about what pushchair to buy. Leafing through the piles of prenatal paraphernalia, she found herself wondering: "Where are all the black mothers?".
Candice started blogging about motherhood in 2016 after making the simple but powerful observation that the way motherhood is portrayed in the British media is wholly unrepresentative of our society at large.
The result is this thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a black mother. It explores the various stages in between pregnancy and waving your child off at the gates of primary school, while facing hurdles such as white privilege, racial micro-aggression and unconscious bias at every point. Candice does so with her trademark sense of humour and refreshing straight-talking, and the result is a call-to-arms that will allow mums like her to take control, scrapping the parenting rulebook to mother their own way.
Product details
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Quercus (28 May 2020)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1529406277
- ISBN-13: 978-1529406276
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 3 x 21.8 cm
Blogger Candice Brathwaite is known for her beautifully constructed and refreshingly straight-talking Instagram captions, so we can't wait to read her urgent part-memoir, part-manifesto about black motherhood, Red magazine
This book is about so much more than paid partnerships and a square-by-square existence. It is an energetic decimation of the narrow, middle-class white lens through which we culturally speak about motherhood; a humorous and sensitive navigation of the nuances within race (Candice, as a black British woman and her husband, as a Nigerian man); and a searing commentary, through the motif of a Bugaboo pushchair, on how class and race intersect. I gobbled it in one weekend and encourage everyone - mother, or otherwise - to do the same., Pandora Sykes
Written in her brilliantly witty manner, this book is every black British woman's motherhood manual, Refinery 29
Humorous but unflinching, every mother, everywhere, should read this book, OK Magazine
She's the straight-talking social-media star who hates the word 'influencer', refuses to 'dress small' and is on a mission to portray a vision of motherhood inclusive of race and class, Stella Magazine
Searing, Dolly Alderton
It's about time we made motherhood more diverse...
- Brand: Candice Brathwaite
- Product Code: 978-1529406276
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