Girls That Never Die Zusterstad 2.0 ” “Pets—the private

” “Pets—the private

the fractured articulation of 'a female body who has sex writing about sex

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and the effort to arrive at a new way of falling in love with the world as it is

pulsating center of our psyche—pulling up fistfuls of nightmares at once strange and familiar

Girls That Never Die Zusterstad 2.0 ” “Pets—the privateSafia Elhillo In Girls That Never Die, award winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against womens bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical