Native women and females of color poignantly share their pain, discoveries, and hope after experiencing the injuries of miscarriage and baby loss What God Is Honored Here? is the very first book of its kind– and urgently required. This is a literary collection of voices of Native females and women of color who have actually gone through miscarriage and baby loss, experiences that disproportionately impact ladies who have often been cast towards the margins in the United States of America. From the story of rushed cultural expectations in an interracial marriage to poems that speak of loss across generations, from traumatic accounts of misdiagnoses, ectopic pregnancies, and late-term stillbirths to the poignant narrates of miscarriages and mystical infant deaths, What God Is Honored Here? brings women together to speak to one another about the traumas and tragedies of womanhood. In its heartbreaking beauty, this book uses an important point of view on how culture and religious beliefs, spirit and body, join in the reproductive lives of women of color and Indigenous ladies as they bear witness to loss, look for what is not there, and claim for themselves and others their essential humankind. Powerfully and with ruthless honesty, they write about what it suggests to recover life in the face of death. Editors Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang acknowledge “who we had been might not have prepared us for who we would become in the wake of these words,” yet the works gathered here provide insight, convenience, and, finally, hope for all those who, like the ladies collected here, have actually found grief a lonesome location. Contributors: Jennifer Baker, Michelle Borok, Lucille Clifton, Sidney Clifton, Taiyon J. Coleman, Arfah Daud, Rona Fernandez, Sarah Agaton Howes, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Soniah Kamal, Diana Le-Cabrera, Janet Lee-Ortiz, Maria Elena Mahler, Chue Moua, Jami Nakamura Lin, Jen Palmares Meadows, Dania Rajendra, Marcie Rendon, Seema Reza,??? Sun Yung Shin, Kari Smalkoski, Catherine R. Squires, Elsa Valmidiano.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
What God Is Honored Here?, Works on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Females of Color
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