Episode 18 - Paulette Ramsay Talking About 'Aunt Jen' & 'Letters Home'
Interview with Professor Paulette Ramsay about her recently republished novel Aunt Jen, and her latest novel Letters Home.
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Interview with Professor Paulette Ramsay about her recently republished novel Aunt Jen, and her latest novel Letters Home.
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Our guest Professor Paulette Ramsay, is a Jamaican poet, translator, journalist, novelist, and academic whose debut novel Aunt Jen (2002) is being republished by Hodder Education, along with her latest novel Letters Home (2021) both novels explore the effects of the Empire Windrush era on family-life for Jamaicans living at home and abroad through a complex mother-daughter relationship.
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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.
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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
“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
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 13 - The One About Mental Health & Jamaican Churches
Ashley, Jherane and Kristina have an intimate conversation about their experiences with churches, mental health, and of course books.
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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.
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
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 12 -Because We Owe You Five Book(ish) Episodes
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.