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Black Women Always
- Conversations on Life, Culture and Creativity
- Narrated by: Loreece Harrison, Jay Lafayette Valentine, Kevin Morosky
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories and inspiration from the women who have most influenced his creative path and explores the ways we can pursue success by implementing their wisdom in all aspects of our lives.
Find joy in your work and life with this creative manual where every part of you is welcome. Culture isn’t a science; it is literal magic. you have to live in it. you have to breathe it…
Film Auteur and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Morosky invites the women he considers his most trusted advisors, closest friends, and biggest inspirations to explore how their impact shapes culture and nourishes society. Through a series of conversations which consider the themes of resilience, patience, autonomy, focus, identity, communication, Kevin shares how their collective teachings and support has helped shape his own life and creative path.
Drawing upon his own experiences in the creative industry across advertising, photography, film and art, Kevin invites you to find your own identity, empowering you to bring 100% of yourself into the room – not just the 30% that’s deemed ‘palatable’ by those already in it. Centring the Black women who always support him, Kevin and his friends, family and mentors reflect on what it takes to authentically achieve your creative freedom. This book is about really admiring and revelling in the magic Black women always bring to the table, a magic that benefits us all.
This is both Kevin’s love letter to Black women, and a revolt against tired, status-quo thinking around creativity and advertising.
INCLUDING CONVERSATIONS WITH: MUM AND TAYLA ON THE PAST / KUCHENGA ON RESILIENCE / JULIE ADENUGA ON BOUNDARIES / DAME ELIZABETH NNEKA ANIONWU ON PATIENCE / SHYGIRL ON AUTONOMY / GYNELLE LEON ON BEING A VIRGO / BIANCA SAUNDERS ON IDENTITY / PERRI SHAKES-DRAYTON ON FRONTING / KELECHI OKAFOR ON INTUITION / AUDREY INDOME ON COLLABORATION / PAULA SUTTON AND AFRICA DALEY-CLARKE ON HOME / TERRI WALKER ON STORYTELLING / LADY PHYLL OPOKU-GYIMAH ON FOCUS / RIVAH ON INTENT / REMI SADÉ ON ESSENCE / BUSHIRA ATTAH AND ASHLEY MADEKWE ON FRIENDSHIP / CANDICE BRATHWAITE ON COMMUNICATION / MPHO MCKENZIE ON WINNING AND LOSING / SELMA NICHOLLS ON SELF-CARE BEFORE SELF-CARE / MARAWA THE AMAZING ON DISCIPLINE / MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN ON PLAYING THE GAME / JAMELIA ON INTEGRITY / AJA BARBER ON MONEY / TOLLY T ON FUN / NANA BEMPAH ON SAFE SPACES
Critic reviews
"A book of warm and tender conversations that provide a safe space."– Bolu Babalola
“The whole book feels like a giant hug, a hug I've not had in a long, long time. I’ve spent a lot of time crying over these beautiful thought-provoking essays. They are so poignant, so tender, so beautiful it feels like, well how I wish black women were treated.” – Jeanie Annan-Lewin
"This is without a doubt one of the most important books...the depths of truth uncovered, examined, and celebrated with such elegance, are further proof we must protect Black women at all costs!” – Dominic Buchanan
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- AConnect
- 27-03-24
Stellar good good
From this very tired and empty cup, thank you for seeing life as you do.
I really enjoyed this audiobook, the structure and the content. Shout out to Loreece Harrison for reading all the different women but making each interview sound like the women individually through the cadences, flows and verbal range of the content covered.
I did not, but I did, need the drag about choosing yourself consistently, and I loved all the topics covered, plus the legendary South London tales woven throughout it all and a vital part of the exploration. From the discussions of advertising appropriation and the challenges of being a Creative in any industry, to the things you've learned about yourself, what is this life, and your appreciation of your supporters and sharing those along the way, thank you for this Kevin.
I love how you've made the audio match up with the style of the book (I have both), it's a real compendium of insight.
Every advertising or creative agency should have this as a compulsory listen or read, right up there and above all the other industry so-called bibles, especially to deal with their thieving tendencies, but as a Black woman, I appreciate the reflect back and the clear and honest ownership of the fact that Black women support is so precious and thorough.
This is a very immersive, heartfelt soundscape to go through, either as a complete narrative, or to dip in and out of by topic matter and take away. I've listened to it a few times now, and it's great for return to, and really helped me to understand things about myself regarding my creative process, like why I've been so frustrated in conventional jobs, but also explaining the stifling I've felt in creative spaces and arenas, how true creative freedom must be fought for, that it's so much easier when someone has your back, and listening to each woman in their own words converse about their experiences and brilliance had been a real gift to me in a way that I haven't encountered before. Collectively gathering so much beauty and depth in one place to cover the relative spectrum of topics, it also felt really restful to listen to as well as it boldly challenges and inspires.
This is of deep value for any Creative, but as the book, for Black Women Always, especially for dismantling the lacking that has us go sight-unseen but yet demanded of to give the most in every direction, by instead giving all of the women in it all of their dimensions out loud and on purpose in every detail, even their write ups, it's stellar. This is awesomely well done Kevin, thanks for letting us in, showing us around. And some of the poetry and the narrative are bars, and bars to live by. It does everything it says it does and is. Enjoy.
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- Fluid
- 28-03-24
All the things
What an amazing book.
The heart, the content, the awareness, the analysis, how it’s structured, and all the beautiful relationships and autobiographical stories.
Wow!!! I am so blown away by this. Will need to listen again. Can’t recommend it enough.
Many thanks to Kevin Morosky for writing this and for all involved in the book and the production 🙏
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- Rebecca Orleans
- 23-04-24
Magic from the wizard
I felt seen and inspired by this book. The conversations within were rich and show how Black women are at the centre of so much.
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