Latest Likearealbookclub Podcast Episodes
The One About Hollywood, Girlhood, and Periods
Like A Real Book Club - June 01, 2023 17:15 - 1 hourWe almost named this one "The One About What We've Been Up To For 10 Months". Haha, hey beautiful people! We're back! Businesses Mentioned: Here We Grow and BerrionlBerry Organisations Mentioned: FEMINITT, I'm Glad I'm A Girl Books Mentioned: Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Orig...
Under The Sycamore Tree - New Podcast from Rebel Women Lit
Like A Real Book Club - February 01, 2023 00:53 - 57 secondsWe have exciting news: a new podcast! Rebel Women Lit took some time work on our newest podcast, 'Under The Sycamore Tree' - a feminist archival podcast highlighting the amazing work of the Women Voices and Leadership grantee partners, 27 LGBTQIA+ and women led organizations across The ...
The One About 'The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives' by Lola Shoneyin
Like A Real Book Club - May 13, 2022 17:10 - 1 hourKristina and Ashley discuss our (messy) February 2022 book club pick: 'The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives' by Lola Shoneyin
The One About 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies' by Deesha Philyaw
Like A Real Book Club - March 02, 2022 22:31 - 2 hoursWe'd ask if you missed us but we're pretty sure you did. We missed you too and that's why this new episode is an extra long one. Get comfy and journey with us as we explore Rebel Women Lit's January book pick: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw. This masterful collec...
The One About Augustown by Kei Miller
Like A Real Book Club - July 18, 2021 03:00 - 1 hourHow long can you keep down people who were made to fly? Augustown is a poetic novel that is grounded in the (hi)story of a prominent preacher and Pan-African activist Alexander Bedward who was said to have claimed that he could fly. Kei Miller reimagined this story as an allegory of the ...
The One About Read Across Jamaica Day & Libraries
Like A Real Book Club - May 16, 2021 10:12 - 23 minutesA short discussion on Jamaica's reading culture, Read Across Jamaica and how the Jamaican libraries are... kind of a mess. Who's up for a #JamaicaReads campaign? - One of our favourite kinds of literature is poetry. Its ability to hold the weight of histories, the gamut of human emoti...
The One With Jacqueline Bishop
Like A Real Book Club - May 02, 2021 06:00 - 47 minutesJournalist, poet, novelist, artist, (and now archivist) Jacqueline Bishop recently released her first collection of interviews which focuses on documenting the craft and lives of 13 Jamaican women writers, in The Gift of Music and Song. The Gift of Music and Song is an intimate account...
The One About bell hooks' 'All About Love'
Like A Real Book Club - April 18, 2021 14:14 - 1 hourOne thing Ms hooks will do is have you talking at length about her work, usually with striking polarity: one side really loved it and the other just could not get behind her ideas. For this new episode of Like A Real Book Club, Ashley, Kristina and Jherane take on one of hook’s more famo...
The One About Sarah Ladipo Manyika's Like A Mule Bringing Ice-Cream to the Sun
Like A Real Book Club - April 03, 2021 18:48 - 1 hourAshley and Kristina walk into a bar... ...And that's exactly how this conversation felt. In this new episode of Like A Real Book Club, Ashley and Kristina dive into the short and sweet novel by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "Like A Mule Bringing Ice-cream to the Sun", a story that gets to your ...
The One With Paulette Ramsay Talking About 'Aunt Jen' & 'Letters Home'
Like A Real Book Club - March 18, 2021 19:26 - 1 hourInterview with Professor Paulette Ramsay about her recently republished novel Aunt Jen, and her latest novel Letters Home. Share using #LikeARealBookClub on social media. Get Aunt Jen, Letters Home and the other Contemporary Caribbean Classics on www.rebelwomenlit.com/classics Our gues...
The One About The Caribbean Readers' Awards
Like A Real Book Club - January 31, 2021 10:30 - 46 minutesBehind the scenes of our inaugural Caribbean Readers' Awards, our inspiration, next year's goals and a bit of tea. Support our podcast and other RWL projects by becoming a sustaining member: www.rebelwomenlit.com/join#sustaining Learn more about the Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers' Awa...
The One With Karen Lord Reading 'Unraveling'
Like A Real Book Club - January 10, 2021 18:03 - 19 minutesKaren Lord reads chapter one of Unraveling - Rebel Women Lit's book club January 2021 pick. RSVP for book club and subscribe to receive our monthly picks at rebelwomenlit.com
The One With moon
Like A Real Book Club - December 07, 2020 13:56 - 22 minutesA (very) special episode featuring the artist moon - talking about their forthcoming poetry collection, Breaking The Binary, a response to queer lives in Jamaica. This episode features original work by moon: 3:57 Yemaya (available on most streaming services and https://www.earthandmoon...
The One On Being "Force Ripe"
Like A Real Book Club - November 08, 2020 08:36 - 1 hourIn 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 ...
That One On Being "Force Ripe"
Like A Real Book Club - November 08, 2020 08:36 - 1 hourIn 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 o...
The One About Mental Health & Jamaican Churches
Like A Real Book Club - October 25, 2020 21:01 - 1 hourYou 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. A 20+ min bonus epis...
That One That Should've Been Five Episodes
Like A Real Book Club - October 16, 2020 21:21 - 1 hourOne 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 y...
Because We Owe You Five Book(ish) Episodes
Like A Real Book Club - October 16, 2020 21:21 - 1 hourOne 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 favour...
The One With Diana McCaulay on 'Daylight Come'
Like A Real Book Club - September 24, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutesWe’re deep into 2020 now, and both the days and the years to come, look darker than they have in a very long time. No, we’re not just talking about COVID-19. So why not curl up with an appropriate book? Join our verandah chat with Diana McCaulay, author of Daylight Come, a tense futuris...
Diana McCaulay - Verandah Chat & Reading Daylight Come
Like A Real Book Club - September 24, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutesWe’re deep into 2020 now, and both the days and the years to come, look darker than they have in a very long time. No, we’re not just talking about COVID-19. So why not curl up with an appropriate book? Join our verandah chat with Diana McCaulay, author of Daylight Come, a tense futurist...
Curdella Forbes - Verandah Chat & Reading 'A Tall History of Sugar'
Like A Real Book Club - June 19, 2020 11:30 - 1 hourGet a cup of your favourite tea, cock yuh ten and enjoy our interview with the very masterful, Curdella Forbes. Kristina and Jherane sat down with Curdella on her verandah with three cups of tea, beautiful rolling hills before us and some nice, cool breeze washing over us. At least that’s the im...
The One With Curdella Forbes on 'A Tall History of Sugar'
Like A Real Book Club - June 19, 2020 11:30 - 1 hourHave you ever met an author that was truly and genuinely as smart and brilliant as their work? Fortunately for us (because our book choices are goddess-tier), the writers that we’ve gotten to know since the start of 2020 have inspired us and left us gagging at how intimately their intel...
Verandah Chat and Tea with Curdella Forbes, author of A Tall History of Sugar
Like A Real Book Club - June 19, 2020 11:30 - 1 hourGet a cup of your favourite tea, cock yuh ten and enjoy our interview with the very masterful, Curdella Forbes. Kristina and Jherane sat down with Curdella on her verandah with three cups of tea, beautiful rolling hills before us and some nice, cool breeze washing over us. At least that’s the im...
Verandah Chat with Curdella Forbes, author of A Tall History of Sugar
Like A Real Book Club - June 19, 2020 11:30 - 1 hourGet a cup of your favourite tea, cock yuh ten and enjoy our interview with the very masterful, Curdella Forbes. Kristina and Jherane sat down with Curdella on her verandah with three cups of tea, beautiful rolling hills before us and some nice, cool breeze washing over us. At least that’s the im...
100 Caribbean Books That Shaped Our World #ReadCaribbean
Like A Real Book Club - June 07, 2020 18:30 - 57 minutesWe all know that stories have the power to change us. We've teamed up with BOCAS Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago for #ReadCaribbean to select Caribbean books that have had an impact on our lives, and this is the result. No, we didn't do 100 books in this podcast but we chose these page-turners that...
The One on The 100 Caribbean Books That Shaped Our World #ReadCaribbean
Like A Real Book Club - June 07, 2020 18:30 - 57 minutesWe all know that stories have the power to change us. We've teamed up with BOCAS Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago for #ReadCaribbean to select Caribbean books that have had an impact on our lives, and this is the result. No, we didn't do 100 books in this podcast but we chose these page-tur...
'A Tall History of Sugar' Book Club Meetup
Like A Real Book Club - May 23, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourLike A Real Book Club reviews Jamaican novel A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes. We talk about the Caribbean's legacy of sugar in the form of our education and careers, economic and political life, and even our diets... and of course the book.
The One on 'A Tall History of Sugar'
Like A Real Book Club - May 23, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourA spoiler-free review of A Tall History of Sugar by Jamaican novelist Curdella Forbes. In this episode, we talk about the Caribbean's legacy of sugar in the form of our education and careers, economic and political life, and even our diets... and of course the book. Special shout out ...
7 - Learning to Love Complicated Mothers
Like A Real Book Club - May 10, 2020 05:05 - 53 minutesIn this episode, we meditate on the complexities of Caribbean motherhood - ladened with a history of patriarchal violence that has architected the tenuous, terrible and beautiful bonds we form with the matriarchs in our lives (and, of course, how these relationships are depicted in Caribbean lit...
Learning to Love Complicated Mothers
Like A Real Book Club - May 10, 2020 05:00 - 53 minutesIn this episode, we meditate on the complexities of Caribbean motherhood - ladened with a history of patriarchal violence that has architected the tenuous, terrible and beautiful bonds we form with the matriarchs in our lives (and, of course, how these relationships are depicted in Carib...
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