Jamaica

Like A Real Book Club: Episode 25- The One About The One About 'The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives' by Lola Shoneyin

Like A Real Book Club: Episode 25- The One About The One About 'The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives' by Lola Shoneyin

In this episode, Kristina and Ashley examine the tensions between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ family structures, love, hate, marriage, and of course secrets while reviewing The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives.

Like A Real Book Club: Episode 24- The One About The One About 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies' by Deesha Philyaw

Like A Real Book Club: Episode 24- The One About The One About 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies' by Deesha Philyaw

We'd ask if you missed us but we're pretty sure you did.
We missed you too and that's why this new episode is an extra-long one.

Like A Real Book Club: Episode 23- The One About Augustown by Kei Miller

Like A Real Book Club: Episode 23- The One About Augustown by Kei Miller

From hairstyles in schools to police officers playing football with guns on their shoulders, Kristina, Ashley and Jherane discuss the ways colonialism and all of his friends continues to be the foundation of modern Jamaica in their review of Augustown.

Episode 14 - The One About Being "Forced Ripe"

Episode 14 - The One About Being "Forced Ripe"

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.