I feel like microaggressions and racism are just as wound through society here as sexism and then there’s the intersectionality going on, too. She is also the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse - an online initiative that aims to ensure many more mothers see themselves reflected online - and a hugely popular influencer. You take your whole self to work because no limb nor pound of flesh will be considered too different, too black, too strange. I am no stranger to Candice Brathwaite’s writing; I'm certainly not a fan, but I do believe she has produced much better work than this without sounding too rude.

Author, journalist and TV presenter, Candice Brathwaite started utilizing the internet in 2015 to tell her own motherhood story.It is a compilation of essays about all the things Candice wishes someone had talked to her about when she was a young black girl growing up in London. The way hateful ideologists are woven into the fabric of elite institutions and society are highlighted and leave you raging. Brathwaite takes great care to use her own story to shine a light on the wider picture and the inequality she uncovers is staggering.

Along the way, Cynthia must learn to grapple with her grief whilst navigating parental expectations and her desire to be a normal teenager.Notice to Internet Explorer users Server security: Please note Internet Explorer users with versions 9 and 10 now need to enable TLS 1. Along with this, her explorations on grief, relationships and young love make this a well rounded novel and a great first step into fiction for her. The premise of this book is about a young girl named Cynthia Adegoke, who has to transfer to an elite school after her family experienced a traumatic incidents back in London. In conclusion, Black girls if you decide to wear a wig, have braids, shave off your hair, have locs, be natural…you’re still beautiful regardless of what society tells you. I thought I knew racism ‘theory’ but seeing it this way you get to realize how pervasive it is (and also how dismissive Black people are of white ‘experts’).