Page 3 - Chidera Eggerue News Today

Forget influencers. It’s all about legacy Is it time to reset influencer marketing and focus on the long game instead? by Ravi Amaratunga Hitchcock Free email bulletins

&nbsp&#x3B;Begin healthier habits by simply picking up a book. &nbsp&#x3B;

British writer Chidera Eggerue has issued new demands to Florence Given, asking for “reparations” to be made on the book, Women Don’t Owe You Pretty. Eggerue, who believes that Given’s book was “significantly copied” from her own work, either wants the book to be pulled from shelves and to given the royalties, or for the book to remain in print with the royalties split 70-30. That’s 70 per cent to Chidera and 30 per cent to Florence. Also known on Instagram as The Slumflower, Egge...

Polly Vernon’s Hot Feminist (2015).  While such books can vary in approach and style, many put forward similar messages of personal empowerment, self-love and the right to choose.  Feminists in academia argue that popular feminism is a diluted form of feminism at best – a brand which can be packaged and sold.  On December 9, debate began to simmer on social media over the resemblance of two popular women’s empowerment books released in 2020: Chidera Eggerue’s How to Get Over a Boy ...

Why books by social media influencers about feminism (or self-help?) seem so similar to one another Popular feminist books are often designed to appeal to younger readers, rather than those well versed in feminist theory. Dec 24, 2020 · 05:30 pm Polls have found that feminism has been declared unappealing and irrelevant to young women. | Flickr,CC BY-SA 2.0 On December 9, a debate began to simmer on social media over the resemblance of two popular women’s empowerment...

On December 9, debate began to simmer on social media over the resemblance of two popular women’s empowerment books released in 2020: Chidera Eggerue’s How to Get Over a Boy (published in February by Quadrille Publishing) and Florence Given’s Women Don’t Owe You Pretty (published in July by Cassell Illustrated). Comparisons between the two have circulated for some time. Given and Eggerue, also known as The Slumflower, are both influencers (people with large followings and marketing inf...

How the Slumflower exposes the limits of superficial identity politics The drama has cost Chidera her management contract while Florence retains her book deal 4 months ago Chidera Eggerue (The Slumflower) and Florence Given have had a public dispute which has caused furious debate about the publishing industry. It has been acknowledged that there is a problem with how the publishing industry valorises young female influencers, primed to spit them out eventually. But we need to address this iss...

The social media saga involving Chidera Eggerue (aka The Slumflower) and Florence Given has only intensified over the past few days. Chidera has made more statements on her Instagram stories in light of her claims that Florence stole her book concept. Chidera claimed that Florence’s new book, Women Don’t Owe You Pretty , ‘”looks the same” as her 2018 book, What a Time To Be Alone. But the controversy has continued as Chidera has made lots of comments on her Instagram stories and poste...

Florence Given and The Slumflower drama explained: Chidera Eggerue calls out book on Instagram!   Florence Given and The Slumflower have both made names for themselves within the feminist non-fiction space, but the pair are involved in Instagram drama surrounding their books. Read on to find out what happened. The Slumflower, who has 308,000 followers on Instagram, has books named What a Time to be Alone and How to Get Over a Boy, both of which present feminist ideas to the reader with illustr...

If you are in any way a follower of Instagram feminism, then you’re probably familiar with political activist Florence Given, and her debut book, Women Don’t Owe You Pretty. The feminist self-help book aims to provide an accessible entry point into progressive feminism for people of all ages and genders. Florence Given faced criticism this week after her book was accused of being incredibly similar to What A Time To Be Alone, a 2018 self-help book by Chidera Eggerue, better known as The Slu...