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So we can know : writers of color on pregnancy, loss, abortion, and birth / edited by Aracelis Girmay.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion.
- Miscarriage.
- Pregnancy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- An anthology of nonfiction by writers of color that transcends form, So We Can Know is a record of varied and intricate relationships to pregnancy.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- "The Evanesced: The Retrieval #48"
- A Caul
- Introduction
- 1
- "The Evanesced: Rivers"
- dear Alice, 'for the murder of [your] bastard child' of the starry-eyed tribe born to children
- If I Am Ever Less Than a Mountain
- My Nothings
- Then They Came for Our Wombs
- we participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves
- Wanting a Child Makes No Goddamn Sense
- After Birth: Stories of Birthing and Grieving at the Same Time
- The Distance of a Sky
- The Offering
- Indian Condition: Excerpt from Heart Berries
- A Conversation Between Mother and Daughter
- A Conversation between Naima Green and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
- 2
- Twenty-First-Century Fertility Support: Seven Years, No Baby Yet
- Till the Ground Fertile
- What We Don't Say
- A Dollar and a Dream
- The Water Clock
- I Am in a Room. I Am on a Rock.
- "Anatomy of the Breast"
- Artist Statement I
- Excerpt from "Your Black Eye and My Birth" from Heart Berries
- I Chose to Stay Awake Maria Hamilton Abegunde
- The Beginning and End of It
- Excerpt from "Better Parts" from Heart Berries
- Catalyst for a Daughter-in-Law
- Think of the Children
- Tits and Ass
- 3
- Death to Breath: A Mother/Daughter Doula Story
- The Beginning and the End
- "The Evanesced: The Retrieval #99"
- 4
- Born Ibeji
- i held a dream ...
- Pity
- For Micah, My Neverborn
- Patient
- Constant Kiss of Contractions
- Life Signs
- Ode to Kale
- 5
- Questions for Mamas of Sons
- When My Son Came to Me
- [I turn the hours into a love note to myself]
- Conception
- Artist Statement VI
- How to Arrive
- On the Origins of O.
- All of Yourself
- Motherhood Is a State of Hypervigilance
- State
- 1994
- You May Drift
- Radical Intimacies
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781642598575
- 1642598577
- OCLC:
- 1356009306
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