‘We Are Not Leftover Women’ — ‘Black. Single. Mother.’ Author Jamilah Lemieux On Love, Labor And Liberation [Exclusive]
In her book 'Black. Single. Mother.,' Jamilah Lemieux challenges stigmas and shares advice on co-parenting, community support, and Black joy. The post ‘We Are Not Leftover Women’ — ‘Black. Single. Mother.’ Author Jamilah Lemieux On Love, Labor And Liberation [Exclusive] appeared first on MadameNoire.
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For decades, the cultural narrative surrounding Black single mothers has been a landscape of jagged edges. These tropes function as strategic tools to coerce Black women into remaining in harmful environments and to rationalize state intrusion into our homes.
Enter Jamilah Lemieux. A powerhouse cultural critic and voice for a generation, Lemieux has spent years disrupting the status quo. Now, with her debut book, Black. Single. Mother., she is doing something radical: she is telling the truth, even when she doesn’t want to. It is the grounded, soul-searching exploration we’ve been waiting for—one that refuses to sacrifice personhood at the altar of parenting. And it’s a book we all should read.
“There wasn’t a book about Black single motherhood that cut through the bullshit,” Lemieux tells MadameNoire in an exclusive interview. “People have talked around and about Black single mothers, but people haven’t talked to us.”
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