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

FilmLady Bird (2017 Film)

Book-to-TV AdaptationsPretty Little LiarsGossip Girl

Books/EssaysGrown by Tiffany Jackson rebelwomenlit.com/grownTHICK 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/VideoDancehall Queen - https://youtu.be/XAm5n8aQxhIFor Harriet, “Why do Black women performers HAVE to sell sex?“ - https://youtu.be/UeWlySR4wBU

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