A review by awhittz
I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite

4.5

This book made me cry and boil with hot rage. Particularly the chapter about her first birth, which heartbreakingly illustrates the subtle but entrenched racism which makes Black British women FIVE TIMES more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Still, in the UK, in modern times. Overall the book isn’t as bleak as I’m making it sound, Brathwaite writes beautifully and very engagingly and I blitzed through it in a day. Can’t recommend it highly enough.