My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels A community of Black faith

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this “hard-nosed

The long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak

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My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels A community of Black faithMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.