My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels Aster has little to offer

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak

The long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative

but she’s never been brave enough to say so

is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South

My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels Aster has little to offerMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.