Sometimes, a conversation about breastfeeding and breastfeeding support extends beyond the obvious. As an initiative of Cradle of Life Limited, this podcast dares to engage in conversations that are related to breastfeeding that we haven’t really considered in great detail before. As such, we dare to have conversations like this one - an in depth, thought-provoking, and perhaps, borderline challenging the norm.

It gets heavy and quite technical, somewhat outside the cliché scope of breastfeeding jargon.

In this episode, Zenzi Moore-Dawes, a Jamaican and Anthropology graduate student at the San Francisco University, joins Simeca to discuss the impact that colonialism and slavery has had on breastfeeding among Black communities — especially Afro-Caribbean and other Black communities.

Zenzi and Simeca get into the discussion to highlight the difference between colonialism and slavery to set the base of the conversation.From there, both ladies dissected the impacts that colonialism and slavery has had on Afro-Caribbean and other Black communities. So, they looked at the separation of mother from child, being forced to breastfeed slave masters’ babies, wet nursing among many other components.

Grab some popcorn and your notepads, this one is one of the most edifying episodes we’ve done thus far. So much so that considerations are being made to extend this conversation. So, stay tuned!