# Jamilah Lemieux

Principales episodios de podcast
Actualizado:

"I Never Liked The Idea of Looking Like a Mom."

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! Today my conversation is with Jamilah Lemieux. Jamilah is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and leading voice in digital feminism, known for shaping online conversations around race, gender, and relationship. She writes the Care and Feeding Parenting Advice …

Black Single Mother with Jamilah Lemieux

This episode is the kind of conversation that makes you exhale. Jamilah Lemieux joins the show to talk about her book, Black Single Mother - the title alone has had the internet buzzing around the topic.  Lemieux breaks down how single motherhood is a spectrum, not a stereotype, and how the current…

Fresh Reads: Black. Single. Mother. Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging by Jamilah Lemieux

For years, Jamilah Lemieux carried a secret fear alongside her story: that if she wrote a book about being a single mother, she would be one forever. That putting it on the page would somehow seal the fate she was quietly desperate to escape — the judgment, the shame, the longing for a different ki…

Jamilah Lemieux on Black Single Motherhood

Jamilah Lemieux’s greatest fear was becoming a single mom. When she found herself pregnant without a partner, she panicked and tried to convince her daughter’s father to get back together with her. But over time, she’s come to embrace single motherhood — and the unexpected joys of co-parenting.  ……

81. Backtalking with Jamilah Lemieux

Host Kimberlé Crenshaw and author Jamilah Lemieux reflect on how it feels to release their first memoirs. On the heeels of the release of Backtalker: An American Memoir, author Kimberlé Crenshaw embarks on a series of conversations with fellow Backtalkers — those who speak truth to power and habit…

DBM Ep 79 Black. Single. Motherhood. w/ Jamilah Lemieux

Dear Mamas & Magic Makers What if I told you the "Black single mother problem" might not actually be about Black mothers? What if everything you thought you knew about Black single motherhood came with a side of patriarchy, poverty, politics, and somebody else's agenda? And what if the "nuclear fa…

EP 489: Men Want Me, Baby and All feat. Jamilah Lemieux

Mandii B and Weezy sit down with acclaimed writer and cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux to discuss her book Black Single Mother and unpack the stigma surrounding single motherhood, dating, co-parenting and blended families. Jamilah recalls discovering that her ex was engaged shortly after she gave bi…

Celebrate Single Motherhood Ft Jamilah Lemieux

What if being a single mother wasn’t something women had to defend—but something worth celebrating? This week, Erica and Milah sit down with writer, cultural critic, and author Jamilah Lemieux for an honest, hilarious, and unapologetic conversation about Black single motherhood, dating, co-parenti…

Chris Brown won't get cancelled. This is why.

When Rep. Jasmine Crockett took the stage at a Chris Brown concert to honor him, the backlash came fast. It's a familiar cycle: every few years, Brown lands back in the news, and the public relitigates a history of violence stretching back to 2009. Gene talks with cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux an…

The Truth about Black Single Motherhood with Jamilah Lemieux

Writer and cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux published a collection of personal essays and testimonies called “Black. Single. Mother.” in March. When she joined Chris to talk about her experience of writing the book and then touring the country to promote it a few months later, she said she’d been ch…