The One On Being "Force Ripe" - a podcast by Rebel Women Lit

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

Film
Lady Bird (2017 Film)

Book-to-TV Adaptations
Pretty Little Liars
Gossip Girl

Books/Essays
Grown by Tiffany Jackson rebelwomenlit.com/grown
THICK 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/Video
Dancehall Queen - https://youtu.be/XAm5n8aQxhI
For Harriet, “Why do Black women performers HAVE to sell sex?“ - https://youtu.be/UeWlySR4wBU

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