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Book of the Week: Slay in Your Lane

Yomi Adegoke

Elizabeth Uviebinene

Jill Waters

Isobel Creed

Book of the Week: Slay in Your Lane: Episode 4

Slay in Your Lane

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Slay in Your Lane, Episode 4

How the internet provided an instant community and source of advice for young black women.

How the internet provided an instant community and source of advice for young black women whose experiences were not reflected in the culture around them.

Two friends explore what it means to be young, black and female in the UK today.

Young black women are facing uniquely challenging experiences in all aspects of their lives. And these experiences are not necessarily the same in the UK as they are in the US. So, when best friends Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené searched for a book that addressed these challenges they realised there was nothing that specifically addressed being black, British, young and female - and you could add to that smart, ambitious and mostly invisible. 

Slay in Your Lane is the love child of exasperation and optimism - part guide, part history, part snapshot of the state of the nation. Examining aspects of life including education, work, health, and everyday racism, it's an honest and provocative book offering advice alongside some startling statistics, as well as stories and anecdotes from interviewees including some of the most successful black women in Britain today. 

In the fourth episode, the authors explore how the internet provided an instant community and source of advice for young black women whose experiences were not reflected in the culture around them. But it's also a haven for cowardly exponents of racism and misogyny. 


Written and read by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené with additional recorded interviews.
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.

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Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene explore what it means to be a black British woman.

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene explore what it means to be young, black and female in the UK today.

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