THE SLUMFLOWER
Bestselling Author of 'What a Time to Be Alone' & ‘How to Get Over a Boy’
Creator of #SAGGYBOOBSMATTER
THE SLUMFLOWER
Bestselling Author of 'What a Time to Be Alone' & ‘How to Get Over a Boy’
Creator of #SAGGYBOOBSMATTER
AN UNSTOPPABLE ICON
THE TIMES - “She is one of the most outspoken and controversial young feminists on social media” (2020)
FINANCIAL TIMES - “Body positive campaigner Chidera Eggerue is endlessly entertaining” (2020)
DAZED - "The Peckham native is this generation’s agony aunt" (2018)
HARPERS BAZAAR - "Her influence has received an overwhelmingly warm, amazing response" (2018)
VOGUE - "Eggerue is undoubtedly a force to be reckoned with" (2018)
THE BOOKS
Chidera Eggerue (she/her) aka The Slumflower is the best-selling author of ‘What A Time To Be Alone’ (Hardie Grant 2018). The book is an empowering call to arms for people everywhere to claim back themselves and focus on the benefits of singledom. That same year, Chidera penned a children’s colouring book ‘Scribble Yourself Feminist’ (Penguin). In February 2020 Chidera released her follow up book ‘How to Get Over a Boy’ (Hardie Grant), another sensational manifesto and guide to dating men. In total, her books have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.
THE BOOKS
Chidera Eggerue (she/her) aka The Slumflower is the best-selling author of ‘What A Time To Be Alone’ (Hardie Grant 2018). The book is an empowering call to arms for people everywhere to claim back themselves and focus on the benefits of singledom. That same year, Chidera penned a children’s colouring book ‘Scribble Yourself Feminist’ (Penguin). In February 2020 Chidera released her follow up book ‘How to Get Over a Boy’ (Hardie Grant), another sensational manifesto and guide to dating men. In total, her books have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.
Chidera is featured in Sunday Times’ 2019 Top 100 Influencers list, The Evening Standard Progress 1000 most influential 2019 and BBC’s 100 Women 2018. That same year, Chidera was also awarded Cosmopolitan’s ‘Changemaker of the Year’ award. March 2018 saw Chidera host a BBC Newsbeat documentary about hair loss in young people, which raised awareness of traction alopecia (from which she suffers) and in June of the same year Chidera gave her inaugural TEDx talk, exploring the fear of being alone.
2018 was also the year that Chidera created #SAGGYBOOBSMATTER movement which quickly became a trending hashtag and led to Chidera’s appearance on ITV’s This Morning driving a new conversation regarding the way we view women’s bodies.
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Chidera recently starred in her own documentary “Bring Back the Bush” that TX-ed 27th January at 10pm on Channel 4, and debuted her first live show “Chidera Eggerue: How To Get Over a Boy Live” at Earth in Hackney. The one-woman, sell-out show was part motivational TED talk, part live book reading, part audience participation, part safe space. She will be launching her podcast ‘The Slumflower Hour’ in 2021.