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Published in Gay Mag

·Sep 10, 2019

Dear Girl

A letter to the body that gives and is never expected to take — A Guyanese family begins and ends with a mother. Tenement yard mother. Coolie mother. Negro mother. Mother who cooks. Mother who cleans. Mother who bathes her brown little children. She lathers their hair with a cake of Blue Soap, fingernails digging into scalps, scrubbing away days of lice, sun, and…

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Dear Girl
Dear Girl
Natasha Persaud

Natasha Persaud

Natasha Persaud is an Indo-Caribbean, American Immigrant writer. She is writing a memoir about growing up in the tenements of Georgetown, Guyana.

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