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DocuSign Envelope ID: 1FB3C60E-686F-4434-8500-FE7D2516331E <br /> • IjiM0111111d,ail <br /> - Foreword <br /> By_laid Shelton Green <br /> Celebrating GRITS <br /> - - hemisphere of the southern womb <br /> a multitude o f lungu-ages singing <br /> from the tip of a single <br /> WI <br /> tongue <br /> We are sisters in the South, from the South,against the South, <br /> for the South, up South,and down South but no longer under <br /> the thumb oldie South. We are not our pain; we are greater and <br /> healthier than unresolved issues with mothers,grandmothers, <br /> sisters,aunts and cousins. We are more than razor toothed <br /> racism, homophobia, classism,and ageism.Gurtl,TS. is the <br /> manifestation of sistahs loving sistahs outside and inside of all <br /> the boundaries, identities, taboos, and generational self-hate that <br /> we straddle. Sistallood is our righteous battle hymn for a new <br /> era of strength, a new literacy of understanding, new ahll.ities to <br /> create new healthier spirits as containers for joy,and ultimately <br /> deep furrows of planted seeds. <br /> Girls Raised In The South know sumptin'bout cast iron sheets, <br /> gangsta thunderstorms that ravish white wash on a backyard <br /> clothes-line.These poems,essays,prose pieces,short stories <br /> and recipes are full of grit git between yo teeth,ooze up under <br /> a tin-roof on a back road behind nowhere,going down south <br /> to grandma's house for the summer <br /> stand in this gritty circle with my sistahs holding the cords that <br /> pump blood, rinse fear,dissolve shame into verses, curses,have <br /> sonnets,death marches, I chew this umbilicus and swallow <br /> nourishing afterbirth,suck on layers and layers of bloody pain, <br /> joy, and endless new breath,.. I offer praises of gratitude for the <br /> tasks of the midwife. <br /> Foreword <br /> LAW Rii0J:N1 Mdt <br />