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Ahead of the discharge of Earth Mama, the Olympian-turned-director speaks to Dazed in regards to the US foster care system and the unrelenting surveillance of Black moms Savanah Leaf’s tender debut Earth Mama begins with a lady delivering a monologue direct to the camera. “It’s my journey; it’s no person else’s journey. No one goes to walk with these shoes I got on my feet. You may’t walk in my shoes but you'll be able to walk besides me,” she says. These first lines sit on the core of Leaf’s directorial ethos – a type of cinema that doesn't intrude or pander to a pitiful type of empathy, but as an alternative observes...