Yesterday's GAPS #PostcolonialStudies conference ended with a most moving, artfully delivered #poetry reading by #SouthAfricanPoet & scholar Uhuru Portia Phalafala from her epic poem "Mine Mine Mine" on the intergenerational trauma of miners & their families
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We drank Milo like water and schemed over the biggest bowl of Grandma’s trotter stew. We took short baths, long naps, and a mildly open door was as close as we got to the wrath of outside, hidden from a winter that had already dug into our pores. Like a cave, or a burrow, or a secret—seemingly dead, but itching with life. We were cold, but our hearts were wrapped in the thickest blankets.
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The fumes from that old paraffin heater clung tighter onto our coats than we did onto the holidays. Bedrooms were clogged with luggage, and the wooden floors groaned beneath the extra weight of hand-me-downs and mind games. We met cousins for the first time whose names we couldn’t pronounce, with fathers whose faces we would never see. We had so much to share, our stories fell over each other and stretched longer than the icy wind’s reach. …