Being raised by a passionate, intense and very intelligent single mom showed me what women can achieve when they are given the tools of independence, health, education and community support.
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We look like our grandparents. A friend of mine just told me today that the genes that does not appear on the first generation, they appear on the second one.
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I was born on a mat
Airyn R. Lentija
I was born on a mat
dried coconut leaves woven
by the hands of my ancestors;
the great heirs of the earth’s dust.
I am a farmer’s daughter
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A shoemaker. A fortune teller. Even in present day India, one rarely associates these professions with women irrespective of economic status. And those women who do these jobs are barely visible.
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I love the photo I have posted for my profile. It was taken by a street photographer (remember them?) of my Mom (l) and me (r) from about 1970, during a happy lull in our tempestuous relationship.
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