A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing Ages 13-17 Dallas woos a hopeful bride

Dallas woos a hopeful bride to exhaust her savings for picket-fence promises—just to humor his boys

disturbing story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her

so then she might get a boyfriend

But as she soon discovered

Only when power is anchored in our identity and in reality will it be able to be in synch with the universe--and be of true benefit to ourselves and to others

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing Ages 13-17 Dallas woos a hopeful brideA revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankines Citizen, DaMaris Hills searing and powerful narrative in verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration. It is costly to stay free and appear sane." From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their protests. In A Bound Woman Is