Kashala Abrahams
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"Picked it up at Waterstones. Tragedian narratives especially exploring trauma will always be of utmost interest. So far, very disjointed. No chapter numbers. So yes, it does feel like you're travelling through the mind of a person with complex trauma." — Jan 31, 2026 11:50PM
"Picked it up at Waterstones. Tragedian narratives especially exploring trauma will always be of utmost interest. So far, very disjointed. No chapter numbers. So yes, it does feel like you're travelling through the mind of a person with complex trauma." — Jan 31, 2026 11:50PM
“[…] in dark rooms, mapping out
each other’s bodies,
claiming whole countries
with their mouths.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
each other’s bodies,
claiming whole countries
with their mouths.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“I am desperately looking the other way so that love won’t see me.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.”
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“You want to tell him it's okay that the night is also a grave we climb out of”
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“My monolithic expectation of what a woman’s body was supposed to look like had no bearing on what actually happened to my body. The two things were wholly unrelated. I never became the woman I imagined. And what was I expecting?”
― Breasts and Eggs
― Breasts and Eggs
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