![]() ![]() It’s used in a way to demean and perhaps unintentionally put a red mark through any ideas along the lines of assimilating black motherhood with positivity and success.Īnd for that reason alone, the fear of becoming a baby mother, I perhaps resisted the idea of having my own children. ![]() I am not your baby mother, I am the mother of your child!’ I remember hearing a faceless woman spit at an equally faceless man one day.Īnd now the term ‘baby mother’ isn’t just a succession of piercing words solely cast upon single black mothers, it’s become a label which is used primarily to dismantle and disable the legitimacy of black women’s version of motherhood in general. ![]() ![]() Responsibility for your own privilege, this book simply must be read. Unrepresented, or whether you’re doing what you can to take Whether you’re a black British mother who feels overlooked and Times more likely to die during childbirth than their whiteĬounterparts that children from black and ethnic minority groups areĪlmost twice as likely to be in poverty and that I Am Not Your Baby I’ve discovered that black mothers are five This book has been crucial to my ongoing journey of understanding, as ![]()
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