Description
When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal-stripe tops or the pinned discussions on Mumsnet about what pushchair to buy. Leafing through 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.
It's about time we made motherhood more diverse...
Endorsements
One of The Observer's 20 rising stars for 2020 — The Observer.
One of Red Magazine's most anticipated titles of 2020 — Red Magazine.
One of Culture Whisper's 2020 must-reads — Culture Whisper.