E. Nina Jay – Body of Rooms Book

Description

body of rooms is a reckoning.

a conversation with myself and the parts of me i find reflected in the eyes, the pain, the secrets and the lives of all the womyn that i am drawn to and love.

i invite you into these rooms/this book, from which i speak as a
black
warrior
womon
lesbian
survivor
of incest
rape
slavery
silence
ignorance
& apathy

body of rooms is a scream in resistance to the kind of lives gurls & womyn like me have been living. compartmentalized. quiet. shameful. separated and split apart,

i wish to spill out into the center of myself
with no form & every definition.
strong.
certain.
unapologetic.

body of rooms is my reaching toward exactly that.

e. nina jau