We are seven International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) who work together providing evidence-based breastfeeding information and support to SW/SE, Central London and Surrey families

Recently we have been appalled by the brutal killing of George Floyd by police. He’s one of the most recent in an untold number of Black Americans whose lives were cut short by state-sanctioned violence. Such violence happens in the  UK, USA and across the world. The list includes the enslaved, the free… the old, the young…in all walks of life... at work and in play.

Countless others have narrowly escaped harm, or have suffered from the psychological effects of surviving or witnessing these repeated and devastating events at the hands of a society that sees them as unequal and unworthy of justice.
At BFL we want to acknowledge and raise the voices of those who have lost loved ones, who live under the crushing grip of fear, who feel this burden the heaviest in this moment. Those whose anger is palpable and whose indignation is most righteous.
We stand in solidarity with our Black colleagues, clients and students and their loved ones. We hear their grief and honor the ways they, time and time again, embody resilience in the face of oppression. We stand behind our partner organisations and commit to doing more, doing better, working together for equality and justice and a world that recognises every life as equal.

We amplify the voices of the unheard. And we state unequivocally that Black. Lives. Matter.
#saytheirnames #Blacklivesmatter #amplifymelanatedvoices