please don’t get me wrong. i have been blessed to have the most profound women mentors in all spheres of my life, felt the most unconditional love and acceptance from female sponsors in my recovery process, have been blessed with irreplaceable friendships and meaningful connections with awe-inspiring women, women have believed in me and opened doors for me into
Robert was still at work. She had resigned herself to the long hours, days, weeks he worked as a restaurant chef. The baby had been crying for well over ten minutes now, she guessed, the intolerable screeching growing louder and louder with each passing minute. Della had gone into the baby’s room when she heard the first agitating “waaaaah!” The
by Desiree-Anne Martin
In 1980’s Apartheid Cape Town, five-year-old Desiree-Anne is grappling with how she is going to turn her tar baby doll’s skin into lily white. She doesn’t know how to force her father to stop drinking or gambling or make her mother love her or get the boys and men to stop touching her in secret.