Njera Eshe Emeya, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/njera-eshe-emeya/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:12:09 +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 Njera Eshe Emeya, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/njera-eshe-emeya/ 32 32 153713158 “Radical Wombs” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/radical-wombs/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:00:59 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=1367 I’ve been dreaming. In my dreams, my sisters sit in circle formation, our legs crossed after a long day of picking okra. We laugh and cry with one another. We share secrets and indulge in nostalgia. “Remember when we spent our days fighting, scheming, plotting….trying to find our way here?” Her long, curly mane is chopped short. Her face is rounder than it once was. Her eyes are tired, but they are happy. Her brown skin shines with sweat, proof of her labor. She labored with me long before there was okra to pick, long before there was land to

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