Jahia de Rose is an artist, landworker, writer, and scholar with roots in Berlin. She was born under a Waxing Gibbous moon on the Autumnal Equinox. Her bylines appear in Electric Literature (forthcoming), PetitMort, Business Insider, and several indie publications. She is at work on a novel and her first memoir. She blogs on Substack as @autumnwildroses, and her Substack publication ‘Roadworthy’ chronicles her life on the road in Europe. See more at linktr.ee/wildroses.

The smell of warm basmati rice bubbling on the stove brings me back to my mother. In my mind, she is wearing the dull red apron which means business—or the

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