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Waiting in the Wings Cherrie Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel of a book in Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. This is the story of one small human being`s struggle for survival, the author`s two-and-one-half pound premature baby boy. While the specifics belong to Moraga in motherhood portrait queer waiting wings and her loved ones -- her large close-knit biological clan; her long-term partner; the child`s father -- the tale is told in common with every woman who has experienced the wonder in motherhood portrait queer waiting wings and terror of pregnancy, the trauma of a child`s near-death. What is uncommon is that the mother is a lesbian, a writer, a Chicana -- all in the same breath of her storytelling. Lesbians don`t make babies with our lovers, she writes. Our blood doesn`t mix. What does mix in Waiting In The Wings are blood in motherhood portrait queer waiting wings and queer relations, Mexican Catholicism in motherhood portrait queer waiting wings and Indian ceremony, butch in motherhood portrait queer waiting wings and femme, life in motherhood portrait queer waiting wings and death -- creating the carne y huesos not only of a baby, but of a family. Familia the author holds to in the grip of labor, sister in one hand, lover in the other. Family whose history she sees written in the dried parchment that is a dying uncle`s skin. I am trying to write about the impossible. The ordinary beginning in motherhood portrait queer waiting wings and ending of a life, Cherrie Moraga tells us. So ordinary, in fact, that perhaps Waiting In The Wings is not that queer after all. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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