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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 influence on social media) and both promote a message of self-love, acceptance, and body positivity. E...

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 issue in terms of race. The situation has been described as a lose-lose one, but at the moment it seems...

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 posted screenshots of WhatsApp conversations between herself and Florence. Chidera Eggerue posted on a Wh...

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 illustrations. What A Time to Be Alone released in 2018 while How To get over a boy was in 2020. On the oth...

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 Slumflower on Instagram. The Slumflower has come forward about the similarities between the books, argu...