Let’s Talk Memoir: Episode 220 ft. Camille U. Adams

Dr. Camille U. Adams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about generations of mothers choosing to unmother their children, colonial violence in Trinidad and Tobago, stifling relationships, cognitive dissonance, finding the psychological, emotional, and geographical distance we need, narcissism and the golden child, not wanting to tell the story we ultimately find a way to tell, being a poet first, retracting and pulling back to get close to ourselves and write, exigence in memoir, going no contact with family, cocooning ourselves, finding support systems that work, getting into literary magazines, how content creates form, and her 300-page poem How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir.

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Dr. Camille U. Adams, author of How To Be Unmothered, in conversation w Fabian Lyon of Game Changers

Fabian Lyon: Thankful for an unforgettable conversation with Dr. Camille U. Adams @camille_u_adams, on how her book 'How To Be Unmothered' is reshaping the narrative around mother wounds and generational truth-telling. Dr. Camille gets very emotional describing her tumultuous childhood in Trinidad and the deep impact her mother’s emotional absence and lack of protection had on her sense of self. She also shares what she would tell her younger self - 13 years old (age when her mother left). We also discuss Dr. Camille's courage in writing this memoir—boldly illuminating the lineage of women in her family who passed down emotional distance and silence. We encourage you to pick up a copy of 'How To Be Unmothered', a work being hailed as revolutionary.

Dr. Camille U. Adams in conversation withLeslieAnn Murray of BrownGirlBookLover - IG Live recording

Camille U. Adams and LeslieAnn Murray discuss How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir. With comparisons to Derek Walcott's poetry, LeslieAnn interviews Camille about her memoir's poetic prose, her inclusion of tree-named chapters, and what it means to write a Caribbean memoir. As two Trinidadian women, the writers discuss the power in recognising and reckoning with bad, abusive, and/or neglectful mothers. In spite of the heavy subject matter, there are lots of laughs once the very early technical difficulties get sorted.