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Born Together

Born Together

By: Tekie Quaye
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 Visit borntogether.co.uk or check out the Instagram page @born__together for more on each episode and to interact with the community.Tekie Quaye Hygiene & Healthy Living Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • 30| Adrienne Oliver

    30| Adrienne Oliver
    Dec 21 2020
    This week’s episode with Adrienne Oliver holds a number of reflections on the experience of Black motherhood. We talk about Black mothering as an act of defiance, engaging in joy as resistance and the cosmic reparations we are hoping to seed through our very existence as a new age of Black mothers. We also unpack the truth and weight of the work and hopes we hold, for our generation and especially our children. I am full of joyful thanks to Adrienne for coming on this journey and sharing such deep truths. It is an episode that offers connection for Black parents and people and critical contemplations to cultivate understandings held by non-Black persons. If you felt moved by Adrienne you can follow her on https://www.instagram.com/adrienneoliverrr/ (Instagram) and support her work through https://www.patreon.com/adrienneoliverrr (Patreon)
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    1 hr
  • 29| Elena Fong

    29| Elena Fong
    Dec 8 2020
    At the time when Elena received her daughter’s diagnosis for down syndrome she had doubts, she couldn’t image herself, as a special needs mum, which was heavily influenced by the colouring given to her daughter diagnosis from the medical community. If only that person could see and know all that Elena does now. Four years down the track Elena is now mum to her daughter Wynter with Downs syndrome and her son Nova who is a typically developing child. Elena shares the arch of her journey. Connecting with her daughter and what she has come to know about herself and our humanness through Wynter’s authentic state of being and her new role advocating the need for equity and inclusion so that Wynter can she herself and all her potential reflected in the world around her are just some of the moments touched on. Elena also opens up about her state of mental wellness, IVF and the isolation of her miscarriages. Elena, like myself, is a true believer in the connective power of shared stories and I am so very grateful for all she shares with us here in this episode.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • 28| Mary Beth La Rue

    28| Mary Beth La Rue
    Nov 30 2020
    This week I’m talking with Mary Beth La Rue about her journey of awakening, experienced through her transition into motherhood, coming to adopt her son through the foster care system. Mary Beth shares how she came to realise that she wasn’t meant to meet her baby the way she thought she was. Trying to conceive with her husband and then being directed to try fertility treatments it wasn’t until she mentioned the idea of adoption that Mary Beth felt a true spark of excitement at the idea of becoming a mother. From the moment she got the call, calling her to her son, to the years spent living in uncertainty; Mary Beth shares the emotional commotion that came hand in hand with her life’s greatest joy. I know you will love coming along this journey with Mary Beth and I am so very thankful to her for sharing her story and enriching the idea of family with her own words and colours.
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    52 mins
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