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Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Fire Drill Friday Mother's Day Rally

For Mother’s Day this year, Jane Fonda and Greenpeace are hosting a very special Fire Drill Friday virtual rally to honor the profound gifts, wisdom, and responsibilities of motherhood. An incredible lineup of speakers will share, in words and song, the beautiful complexities of stewardship and why climate action can not wait.

Join Jane Fonda, Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard; Climate Justice Liaison of Environmental Defense Fund and Senior Advisor of Moms Clean Air Heather Mcteer Toney; Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network Miya Yoshitani; professor…

Authors

Presence and Absence: A Cover Image Story

Milkweed Staff — 04/21/2021

 

by Victoria Chang

The cover for Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, emerged organically, in the same way that this book emerged. After my mother died, there was the obvious grieving of my mother as body, as mind, as caretaker, but I was surprised to feel a greater sense of loss–a loss of not only her history but my own history. When she died, my connection to and with my family’s Chinese and Taiwanese culture evaporated. Because my mother tended toward secrets, I didn’t know much about her history, and never cared too much before about…

Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang is the author of Dear Memory. Her poetry books include OBIT, Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle.

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