Jennifer Celestin, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/jennifer-celestin/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 26 Jul 2021 06:48:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Jennifer Celestin, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/jennifer-celestin/ 32 32 153713158 Transnational F**keries https://www.midnightandindigo.com/transnational-fkeries/ Sat, 01 May 2021 04:00:47 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=76884 At the produce markets that populated Church Avenue, if someone cut in line or pushed her while trying to squeeze past, my mother would hurl the harshest obscenity that came to mind, “Fuck!” It was in fact one of her favorites because of the effect it had on people. That one and ‘cocksucker,’ which she had added to her repertoire after an elderly patient had used it to insult her for refusing his sexual advances. That day she came home upset and told me someone had called her a name, had insulted her. She was unusually reticent to tell me

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]]> 76884 “Intervention: Luz Ortega” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/intervention-luz-ortega/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 04:00:49 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77032 Luz had faked a pregnancy in order to get the attention of her ex-boyfriend Johnny Rivera and kept it going for six months. Not only had other students been whispering that she was full of shit, but now, in her second trimester, she was calling out of school on account of back pain and morning sickness. She walked around with an arched back, poking her belly out when the counseling staff decided it was time for an intervention. Truancy was a no go for this school. After all, kids ended up at this school because they were chronic cutters. “Are

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