Lesley-Ann Brown is an author and poet who has lived the last 20 years in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her blog Blackgirl on Mars was one of the first to write about Blackness, womanhood and expat living in Europe. Her recently published book “Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son” is a memoir in letters about the continued impact of European colonialism through the lens of Black motherhood in Europe and touches much on her Caribbean background and childhood in Brooklyn. She was a TEDX speaker last December.

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