Christine Jean Blain’s work has appeared in Sukoon Magazine of Arab themed art and literature, “A Limed Jewel” poetry anthology edited by Black Londoners Appeal and African Voices magazine. When she is not traveling and teaching she lives in between Haiti and New York.
I am the only girl in my family. When I say ‘only’ I do not mean that there aren’t any women anywhere else in my bloodline, that would be biologically and spiritually impossible. In fact, the generation before mine was built by