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“You Are the First Thing Your Mother Could Own”: Taiye Selasi’s Fiction Debut in The New Yorker Is a Firstborn Daughter’...

Taiye Selasi has a new story in The New Yorker, and it reads more like a letter than fiction, one woman writing to another who already understands what’s coming. “Dear Firstborn Im...

On Being the Youngest Daughter

an introduction and a reflectionContinue reading on Medium »

I’m the Daughter of Immigrants. I See Dolly Parton in the Women Who Raised Me

The parallels between Dolly's experiences in Nashville and those who arrive in America from afar are unmistakable

My Birthright

When you immigrate, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why I can’t stop writing about where I’m from?

The angry daughter effect

An old CD stuck on a relentless loop: “What happened to that ingénue daughter of ours? Why did she become such an iconoclast?”For years, the answer was simple: she was a child terr...

The angry daughter

An old cd stuck on one song "what happened to the ingenue daughter of ours? Why is she always so iconoclast "......The one who always had a fear of crestfallen her parents turned h...

Mothers, Migrants, Artists

By Sophia Skiles, Jasmin Cardenas, Caroline Hatem, Marta Górnicka. Through the use of story and song with communities in crisis, artists Jasmin Cardenas, Marta Górnicka, and Carol...

These Are The Issues Youngest Daughters Bring Up The Most In Therapy

As the youngest daughter, you may get labelled as the baby of your family even long after becoming a grown adult. “A youngest daughter may be simultaneously protected as the baby,...

Daughter Left Everything to Follow Christ. Then It Was Our Turn to Let Go.

NCR Our daughter was still in grade school when friends began suggesting she might have a religious vocation. We initially ignored these comments, but later realized they were com...

Distance, but not escape: Filipinos in Berlin on migration, home, belonging

Annemarie reflects on growing up with a mother who worked long hours in Germany, noting the emotional toll of forced migration and her commitment to honoring her mother’s sacrifice...

Immigrant Prayer Against Romance | Albrin Junior | Poetry

  Dear God, I did not come to Britain to fall in love. I came because of ambitions that must live, And ambition, unlike heartbreak, Does not sit around waiting for the weather to i...

My sister’s Iraqi henna party was fabulous. I’m scared my kids won’t have one.

My big sister’s henna party earlier this month was fabulous. Hundreds of relatives danced to Arabic music while an Israeli-Arab singer belted out Iraqi classics. At the night’s pea...

Raising a Daughter Who Will Never Grow Up

My toddler isn’t expected to live past age 5. How can I give her a good life while she’s still here?

She Became a Wife, But Why Was She Expected to Stop Being a Daughter?

There is a peculiar kind of guilt that many Indian women learn after marriage.It appears when she wants to send money to her parents, pay for her mother’s medical treatment, buy so...

An Unlikely Lineage: One Woman’s Family Mystery Led Her to Jewish Roots

How born-and-raised Mexicana Samantha Rodriguez unearthed her surprising Jewish heritage. <p>The post An Unlikely Lineage: One Woman’s Family Mystery Led Her to Jewish Roots...

Teaching Raksha Bandhan to Second-Gen Kids Abroad

Raising a child in Houston, London, or Sydney comes with a quiet challenge. How do you pass down a festival your child has never seen celebrated at home? For families who moved abr...

The promise she kept; the promise we must keep

For years, I assumed she had gone to school. There was nothing about her that suggested otherwise. She was thoughtful, articulate and curious. English was her native language, and...

L.A. Affairs: I befriended an older woman in my new building. Would dating her son ruin our bond?

I never felt at home in my identity until I met my new neighbor. And I never saw this coming: She became my mother-in-law.

the future you plant

for my dear sweet daughter - sister...

I Was Born of Immense Strength and Fearlessness

A chance encounter with a doula in an Uber brings one practitioner face-to-face with a maternal koan. The post I Was Born of Immense Strength and Fearlessness appeared first on Tri...

BORN OF GUILT: hit Bulgarian novel tells a generational tale of immigration and sisterhood

In Joanna Elmy’s Born Of Guilt, three generations of Bulgarian women – Yana, Lily and Eva – have all suffered from their surroundings. The post BORN OF GUILT: hit Bulgarian novel t...

Twenty is for God

When my French husband and I moved from California to France with our three-month-old, it was specifically so our family could be bilingual.

Mom and daughter become first Siraya people registered

Honouring Inheritance: The Chat with Jane Park

Jane Park is a second-generation Korean Canadian writer. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and was a participant in the Banff Centre’s Writing Studio, and Diaspora Dialogues. She was born...