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A podcast about growing up, changing mindsets, and finding who you truly are. Also about experiencing love and loss along the way. I’m your host Ivana Lee and I’ve spent most of my twenties reflecting on my childhood and the things that make me who I am today. Whether it’s dealing with trauma or just learning new things about myself, I’m constantly wanting to share my experiences with the world. I do so, in the hopes that I can help people will find who they are and learn how to be happy or content in their own autonomy . Instagram @itsivanalee // @maybeishouldsaysomethingpod

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, 28 writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time.

On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mother, Cherry Groce, was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine, and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the news falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched and shops looted.