A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing Ages 13-17 Only when power is anchored

Only when power is anchored in our identity and in reality will it be able to be in synch with the universe--and be of true benefit to ourselves and to others

Mam is dying of cancer

and Shirin has just started at yet another school

Her sister

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing Ages 13-17 Only when power is anchoredA revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankines Citizen, DaMaris Hills searing and powerful narrative in verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration. It is costly to stay free and appear sane." From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their protests. In A Bound Woman Is