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Waiting in the Wings : Portrait of a Queer Motherhood by Cherríe Moraga is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Waiting in the Wings : Portrait of a Queer Motherhood about?

Cherrie Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel of a book in Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood . This is the story of "one small human being's struggle for survival", the author's two-and-one-half pound premature baby boy. While the specifics belong to Moraga and her loved ones -- her large close-knit biological clan; her long-term partner; the child's father -- the tale is told in common with every woman who has experienced the wonder and terror of pregnancy, the trauma of a child's near-death. What is uncommon is that the mother is a lesbian, a writer, a Chicana -- all in the same breath of her storytelling. "Lesbians don't make babies with our lovers", she writes. "Our blood doesn't mix". What does mix in Waiting In The Wings are blood and queer relations, Mexican Catholicism and Indian ceremony, butch and femme, life and death -- creating the carne y huesos not only of a baby, but of a family. Familia the author holds to in the grip of labor, sister in one hand, lover in the other. Family whose history she sees written in the dried parchment that is a dying uncle's skin. "I am trying to write about the impossible. The ordinary be

Who reads Waiting in the Wings : Portrait of a Queer Motherhood?

Author

Cherríe Moraga

Publisher

Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781563410925

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (116 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14