My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday

is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South

as well as an introductory essay written exclusively for this publication

from first vision

but she’s never been brave enough to say so

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak

My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthdayMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.