This week I’m in conversation with my dear friend Kezi who opens up about her journey growing into the role of motherhood. Kezi suffered a miscarriage during her first pregnancy and, perhaps not having healed from the experience, came to find it difficult to let her emotions go during her second pregnancy. She was taken by surprise by the massive and overwhelming sensations of birth. The moment when she finally held her son Eden was complicated by the absence of emotions she had expected to feel and it took some time before she came to accept the baby that she had and find her stride as a mother. Motherhood would also prove to be the catalyst for her journey of coming to understand antiracism. Realising she needed to do this for herself first as well as her son. Working educate herself on how to support and celebrate her son and family’s Blackness.