Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark): 10

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But Warsan also talks about the trauma that war and having to flee one's home country brought upon the inflicted. My mother would grow to erase the memory of her biological mother, adopting her grandmother as her mother, the amnesia ran deep that she referred (and still) to her mother by her first name. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Even though it's simple in its wording, it's going to sucker-punch you again and again; it made me cry ugly tears.

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In her article, Leslie Winston interrogates differing representations of the hermaphrodite in Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) Japan that challenged the prototype of a binary sexual paradigm promoted by sexologists. Born in 1988, Warsan has read her work extensively all over Britain and internationally - including recent readings in South Africa, Italy, Germany, Canada, North America and Kenya- and her début book, 'TEACHING MY MOTHER HOW TO GIVE BIRTH' (flipped eye), was published in 2011.

The thesis also explores notions of home and belonging as knowledge about the mothers’ and also the fathers’ notion of home and belonging creates a space from which we can discuss the circumstances that allow or obstruct the mothers’ practices of matrifocality in the diaspora.

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I am interested in how these poets depict the complex mediation of female sexualities by the state, the family, religious, and cultural bodies and how, in turn, they represent sexuality as simultaneously a domain of restriction, repression, and danger as well as a domain of exploration, pleasure, and agency. A lot of these poems are super dark, so trigger warning for domestic violence and rape/sexual assault, but the haunting quality to them made them so addicting and tragic. Firstly, memories and nostalgia of a matrifocal past in their childhood homes in Somalia inform and reproduce the mothers’ salience.

This event was organised by the Australian Studies Centre of the University of Barcelona, Spain, together with the Centre for Peace and Social Justice of the University of Southern Cross, Lismore, Australia, directed by Dr Susan Ballyn and Dr Baden Offord respectively. But Alhamdulilah all of this is better than the scent of a woman completely on fire, or a truckload of men, who look like my father pulling out my teeth and nails, or fourteen men between my legs, or a gun, or a promise, or a lie, or his name, or his manhood in my mouth. Shire uses this book to speak of matters that worry women, primarily in countries at war or that I have no idea how and why I added this poetry collection to my TBR since I rarely read anything in verse.