Christine Jean Blain, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/christine-jean-blain/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sun, 17 May 2020 20:10:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christine Jean Blain, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/christine-jean-blain/ 32 32 153713158 My Butterfly Will Never Become A Caterpillar https://www.midnightandindigo.com/my-butterfly-caterpillar/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:11:22 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=75546 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 an arsenal of women. A strong pantheon of diamond and granite women. Women who earned PhDs while rocking babies and swinging machetes, all at the same time. When I say only girl, I mean the only set of identical X chromosomes raging in a heterogametic sea of XYs. Growing up it was me and the boys. My brother

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