So we can know : writers of color on pregnancy, loss, abortion, and birth / edited by aracelis girmay ; foreword by Nina Angela Mercer.

Writers of color on pregnancy, loss, abortion, and birth

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2023.

xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index.

"The evanesced: The retrieval #48" / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle -- A caul / Nina Angela Mercer -- Introduction / aracelis girmay -- "The evanesced : Rivers" / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle -- dear Alice, 'for the murder of [your] bastard child' of the starry-eyed tribe born to children / Umniya Najaer -- If I am ever less than a mountain / Dominique Matti -- My nothings / Ama Codjoe -- Then they came for our wombs / Sandra Guzman -- we participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves / Jennifer S. Cheng -- Wanting a child makes no goddamn sense / Tiphanie Yanique -- After birth: Stories of birthing and grieving at the same time / Bhanu Kapil -- The distance of a sky / Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Deema K. Shehabi -- The offering / Cynthia Dewi Oka -- Indian condition: Excerpt from Heart berries / Terese Marie Mailhot -- A conversation between mother and daughter / Shaina P. Jones and Jada S. Jones -- A conversation between Naima Green and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina -- Twenty-first-century fertility support: Seven years, no baby yet / Celeste Mendoza -- Till the ground fertile / LeConte Dill -- What we don't say / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- A dollar and a dream / Keeonna Harris -- The water clock / Vanessa Angelica Villarreal -- I am in a room. I am on a rock. / Ruth Irupe Sanabria -- "Anatomy of the beast" / Laurie Ann Guerrero -- Artist Statement I / Laurie Ann Guerrero -- Excerpt from "Your black eye and my birth" from Heart berries / Terese Marie Mailhot -- I chose to stay awake / Maria Hamilton Abegunde -- The beginning and end of it / Patricia Smith -- Excerpt from "Better parts" from Heart berries / Terese Marie Mailhot -- Catalyst for a daughter-in-law / Laurie Anne Guerrero -- Think of the children / Kimiko Hahn -- Tits and ass / Deborah Paredez -- Death to breath: A mother/daughter doula story / Emma L. Morgan-Bennett and Jennifer L. Morgan -- The beginning and the end / Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang -- "The evanesced: The retrieval #99" / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle -- Born Ibeji / Cheryl Boyce-Taylor -- i held a dream... / Marcie R. Rendon -- Pity / Seema Reza -- For Micah, my neverborn / Mahtem Shiferraw -- Patient / Shaina Phenix -- Constant kiss of contractions / Mahogany L. Browne -- Life signs / Andree Greene -- Ode to kale / Hope Wabuke -- Questions for mamas of sons / Emily Raboteau asks Angie Cruz -- When my son came to me / Angie Cruz -- [I turn the hours into a love note to myself] / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- Conception / Celeste Mendoza -- Artist Statement VI / Laurie Ann Guerrero -- How to arrive / Ellen Hagan -- On the origins of O. / Nelly Rosario -- All of yourself / A conversation between aracelis girmay and Elizabeth Alexander -- Motherhood is a state of hypervigilance / Simone White -- State / Simone White -- 1994 / Vanessa Martir -- You may drift / Mendi Obadike -- Radical intimacies / Marta Lucia Vargas.