Jessica Hairston: The Transformative Power of Our Wombs

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Nomadic Press, paperback

Publication Date: February 4, 2023

Publisher Marketing: POWER OF OUR WOMBS is an ode, a tribute, and honor work. It’s my mirror work to go back and fetch- infant me. It’s my ‘personal responsibility’ towards Sankofa. I hope these poems elucidate or better yet sing both the gospel and the blues of my entrance and when I’m gone, my legacy. Knowing the power of our wombs, the homes I’ve had, has finally made me proud of my origin story. These stories are turning the loss and grief, the abandonment and isolation, the distrust, the shame, from dirty pain to clean pain. I’ve come to accept these experiences as the other face, the agreement of love and for love. This book is for youth of rage, the parent, the social worker and even the lawmaker. It’s for the long awaited conversation at the dining table, it’s for families reuniting.

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