This book is all about the care system, and it’s written by people who have experienced it first-hand.
Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by more than 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge worn-out stereotypes. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences including foster care, adoption, kinship care and semi-independent living, among others.
Headlines written about care often entrench negative ideas and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the dialogue and present a window into a world that has been overlooked for too long.
Free Loaves on Fridays presents a spectrum of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes so much better when it’s been chosen.
Sobre o autor
Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced author and campaigner with a background in child protection social work and social policy. She has written extensively about the care system, and has appeared in publications including the Guardian, the Independent, and on BBC Radio 4 among others. Rebekah has drawn upon her lived experience to expose wider policy failures. Her peer-reviewed journal, ‘Revisiting Diary Entries from Care: An Exposition of the Challenges of Unregulated Placement Setting’, is the first-known auto-ethnographic paper to feature childhood diary extracts written in the care of the state. She is passionate about amplifying
marginalised voices through the arts.
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