William Brito Brito itibaren Barbigha, Bihar, India
This book made me re-consider what my role as parent shall be. As a queer parent. How to forge a family of one's own in a place where the nuclear-biological one is placed on the highest pedastal. Cherrie's prose is poetic, passionate and a powerful testament of a Chicana queer mama. The books chronicles her process of insemination, pregnancy, birth and after-birth, through journaling and addendums...what this process does to oneself, to one's partners & what one perspective on queer parenting looks like. I can't recommend this enough. I was deeply, deeply moved by it.
I've tried to read this a few times, and while it's a great book and I've loved it every time, it's just so hard to get through so I've never been able to finish it. Hopefully next time I pick it up I'll do a better job of getting through the rest.