{"id":58601,"date":"2019-07-29T01:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T01:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58601"},"modified":"2019-07-29T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:25:46","slug":"brown-girl-in-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58601","title":{"rendered":"Brown Girl In The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brown Girl In The Ring<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Riposte: A Smart Magazine for Women<\/a>
\n2019-07-24<\/p>\n

Lou Mensah<\/strong><\/a>, Writer, Photographer and co-founder of Shade Podcast<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMaya Series Cenote IV.<\/em> Aubrey Williams, Copyright Aubrey Williams Estate<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Charting parallels between childhood and motherhood by Lou Mensah.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My mother, English and late father, Ghanaian. My partner is Irish and my nieces and nephews, Jamaican and Turkish.<\/p>\n

Summer 2009. It was 5.30am as we were packing up the car at the stairwell of our flat to emigrate from Hackney<\/a> to Ireland<\/a>, when a local Zimbabwean Indian man, Jack, offered help with the baby as we loaded the car. I could have cried at his kindness. As I handed her over, he said in the most gentle tone \u201ccome here, my little joy of bundle\u201d and that was it, I wanted to stay in the place we called home, in the flat where my only child was born, by the flower market where I walked during labour, where the stall holders kissed me and wished me luck with the birth.<\/p>\n

I grew up in suburban England<\/a> during the 70\u2019s, when the National Front<\/a> lads would chase family members for a, \u201cfucking kicking in\u201d; a time when my parents marriage and my very existence as a mixed race child would have been illegal in South Africa<\/a> under the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act<\/em><\/a>, under the apartheid<\/a> regime later to be supported by the British Government…<\/p>\n

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