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Mama Outsider: Reminder Notes to a Dancing Girl

“It is the weekend Beyoncé releases her “Formation” single and a bad queen has just performed it without breaking a sweat. I am watching the queen and learning that the…

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Aug 19, 2016

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Mama Outsider: How I Learned the Definition of Obscene

“I was unstable and grieving and more suited for a patient friendship than the dramas of new love. But I loved her and in thirst, I acted unlovingly by climbing…

Asha —

Aug 4, 2016

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Mama Outsider: When Your Mother Thanks You for Keeping Your Baby

“Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst…

Asha —

May 26, 2016

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