Thrive Solo The One Where I Talk To Speaker & Thought Leader, Keturah Kendrick
My guest on this week’s episode is the awesome Keturah Kendrick.
Keturah is a single, childfree woman, born and raised in New Orleans but currently living in New York City. She is an author, speaker and thought leader. A passionate advocate for young, black women, Keturah’s life mission is to be an ambassador of freedom to black women. In her own words, she was meant to be an unmarried black woman, absent of children, living a joy-filled, fulfilling life. Keturah’s award-winning memoir, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone, is a collection of essays chronicling her challenges and reflections on living while Black, woman, single and childfree around the globe. She’s also the author of ‘And You Know This: Lessons On Living From Young Folx.’
Topics that we cover are:
- how Keturah has known for a long time that traditional partnership isn’t for her;
- autonomy, and what it means to her;
- the relief she felt upon ending a longterm relationship before she moved to Africa;
- the labour and work that is expected of women in heterosexual relationships;
- the expectations that come from being one half of a couple;
- how women are expected to shape shift for the ‘privilege’ of love;
- how being a black woman adds an extra layer of stigma when it comes to being single and childfree;
- how rejecting marriage and babies as a black woman is effectively seen as treason against your people;
- Keturah’s mentees, and how she advises them when it comes to relationships;
- how we never actually ask ourselves why we want a relationship and kids;
- how so many women write off singlehood without really giving it a chance;
- Keturah’s family and how they feel about her life choices;
- her experience of being an auntie;
- why women are beginning to choose whether they become wives and mothers, or not;
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https://www.keturahkendrick.com/
Buy Keturah’s book, No Thanks (UK):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Thanks-Female-Living-Martyr-Free/dp/1631525352
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