My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties and attending school on the South Side of Chicago, then soaring all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, colonialism, displacement, heartbreak, and grief--but also love, motherhood, spirituality, resistance, and Black joy.