Like A Real Book Club – Details, episodes & analysis

We almost named this one "The One About What We've Been Up To For 10 Months". Haha, hey beautiful people! We're back!

Businesses Mentioned:
Here We Grow and BerrionlBerry

Organisations Mentioned:
FEMINITT, I'm Glad I'm A Girl

Books Mentioned:
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings (Rebel Women Lit's March & April book club pick)
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement by Nadya Okamoto
The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More (Green Witch Witchcraft Series) by Arin Murphy-Hiscock 

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We have exciting news: a new podcast! Rebel Women Lit took some time work on our newest podcast, 'Under The Sycamore Tree' - a feminist archival podcast highlighting the amazing work of the Women Voices and Leadership grantee partners, 27 LGBTQIA+ and women led organizations across The Caribbean. Episodes drop in March but in the meantime, you can subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any updates. https://www.rebelwomenlit.com/under-the-sycamore-tree

Behind the scenes of our inaugural Caribbean Readers' Awards, our inspiration, next year's goals and a bit of tea. Support our podcast and other RWL projects by becoming a sustaining member: www.rebelwomenlit.com/join#sustaining Learn more about the Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers' Awards and shop the nominees: rebelwomenlit.com/awards See the Caribbean Readers' Awards in O! Magazine: https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/g35179881/rebel-women-lit-caribbean-readers-awards-winners/

Karen Lord reads chapter one of Unraveling - Rebel Women Lit's book club January 2021 pick. RSVP for book club and subscribe to receive our monthly picks at rebelwomenlit.com

A (very) special episode featuring the artist moon - talking about their forthcoming poetry collection, Breaking The Binary, a response to queer lives in Jamaica. This episode features original work by moon: 3:57 Yemaya (available on most streaming services and https://www.earthandmoon.net/music) 8:00 Broken Lineage 11:45 Undefined 14:03 Broken Silence 18:05 Unsung You can follow moon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moon.the.artist/ This special episode was sponsored by CATAPULT Arts Grant, American Friends of Jamaica, Kingston Creative, Fresh Milk Barbados and you - our sustaining patron members of RWL. To become a member of Rebel Women Lit join us at rebelwomenlit.com/join Follow @RebelWomenLit on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter if you're interested in joining our (very queer, very Caribbean, always lit) community celebrating diverse & brilliant literature.

In this new episode of Like A Real Book Club, we traverse a very dark and all too common feature of Caribbean girlhood and womanhood by looking at sexual grooming and sexual violence. Looking through the lenses of popular book to TV adaptations, Tiffany Jackson’s Grown, Jamaican history and our own personal experiences, we talk about the insidiousness of glamourized pedophilia, the oversexualization of Black women’s bodies, why we should leave Minister Marion Hall alone and...so much more. Further Reading and References Film Lady Bird (2017 Film) Book-to-TV Adaptations Pretty Little Liars Gossip Girl Books/Essays Grown by Tiffany Jackson rebelwomenlit.com/grown THICK by Tressie McMillan Cottom “Property Rights in Pleasure: The Marketing of Enslaved Women’s Sexuality”, by Hilary McD. Beckles - Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World “Queering Feminist Approaches to Gender-based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean” by Tonya Haynes and Halimah A.F DeShong Play/Video Dancehall Queen - https://youtu.be/XAm5n8aQxhI For Harriet, “Why do Black women performers HAVE to sell sex?“ - https://youtu.be/UeWlySR4wBU Support our podcast and literary community by becoming a member: rebelwomenlit.com/join Shop books and merch: rebelwomenlit.com/store Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @RebelWomenLIt

You know the end of Ari Lennox' 'Chicago Boy' where she asks everyone who is not her friend to leave? That's how this episode feels. Ashley, Jherane and Kristina have an intimate conversation about their experiences with churches, mental health, and of course books. A 20+ min bonus episode on the books we turn to when we're in a bad mental place is available to our patron members, become a member to get access to our private podcast stream: rebelwomenlit.com/join Books Mentioned: The Mothers by Brit Bennett Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams PATSY by Nicole Dennis Benn The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller Augustown by Kei Miller Become a Patreon member of our book club: rebelwomenlit.com/join Shop books and merch: rebelwomenlit.com/store Follow us on Instagram and Twitter

One thing about us, we’re gonna intend to talk about one thing and end up talking about 27. It’s been such a long time since we’ve done an episode that everything came pouring out of us. But that’s the beauty of a book club (and the podcasts that are like them) - you get to gush about your favourite things, the things you hate and everything in between with amazing people.

In this episode of the podcast, Ashley, Jherane and Kristina catch each other up on what they’ve been reading; all the reasons Goodreads sucks (and why we’re switching to Storygraph); our vendetta against Alfredo pasta and, perhaps more importantly, why we think Spice and Shenseea would be big fans of Talia Hibbert.

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We’re deep into 2020 now, and both the days and the years to come, look darker than they have in a very long time. No, we’re not just talking about COVID-19. So why not curl up with an appropriate book? Join our verandah chat with Diana McCaulay, author of Daylight Come, a tense futuristic sci-fi story about climate change in the Caribbean. 

What makes McCaulay's latest book so remarkable is how terrifyingly realistic she makes the details of the world she builds for her characters, and her readers, to inhabit. In this podcast, we talk about Daylight Come, how she prophecies through fiction writing, her craft, inspiration and the book that made her cry & become a writer.

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Have you ever met an author that was truly and genuinely as smart and brilliant as their work? Fortunately for us (because our book choices are goddess-tier), the writers that we’ve gotten to know since the start of 2020 have inspired us and left us gagging at how intimately their intellectual pursuits and their creative work connect. Our April book’s writer, Curdella Forbes, is no exception to this rule. 

For this episode of Like A Real Book Club, we sat down with Curdella on her verandah with three cups of tea, beautiful rolling hills before us and some nice, cool breeze washing over us. At least that’s the imagery we had in our heads while we sat in our respective homes. As an academic, it came as no surprise that Curdella’s understanding of the colonial project in the Caribbean is multilayered and complex. In our conversation about this deeply intricate novel, she talks to us about why she chose to use a man with “no skin” as a point of contention for both white people and black people, who were subjects of empire, to confront their ideas of race, worth and success. Throughout this interview, you’ll hear Curdella talk about the importance of writing in Jamaican, the seamless melding of the naturalist and spiritual world in the Jamaican psyche, writing the varied realities of Jamaican women and “our responsibility in the face of human vulnerability”. AND JUST SO MUCH MORE. 

Get a cup of your favourite tea, cock yuh ten and enjoy our interview with the very masterful, Curdella Forbes. 

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