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Whenever the three of us gather to record for this podcast, something (the Lorde/universe/whoever) softly nudges us towards a conversation we had no intention of having. These conversations are hard and uncomfortable but with beautiful friends that can hold space for you, they become significantly easier. 

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 paedophilia, the over-sexualization 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

• Crossfire: A Litany of Survival Staceyann Chin

• “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