girls that never die

At once vulnerable and assertive, the Sudanese-American demonstrates her agency, tells her story on her own terms without omission, and advocates for those who have been silenced. She recounts harrowing experiences of intimidation and violence, and tries to make sense of a life lived in two different worlds (often simultaneously).

She explains how regimes use systems, hierarchies, laws, rules, regulations, and policies to subjugate individuals within designated groups of people, and to justify this oppressive behavior. The oppressor fears challenges to his supposed “natural” privilege and therefore forbids formative experiences and demands specific contributions to patriarchal society.

But the desire to control can never be fully satisfied, the pursuit of legacy-leaving results in manufactured memory, and cowardice is incompatible with life truly experienced. Only a fighting spirit can transcend the finality of death; some girls have the mindset, attitude, pure courage and energy to ensure that they will never die.

note:

• the (religious) concept of purity forever picks a fight with basic biology