Theory of Buoyancy

Feminine Resistance

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This story has been floating in me for a decade now.

Jigamma would have wanted me to write this, she would have wanted the world to know of her heroic resistance. Her deep motherhood, her fluid willpower and her boundless blue expanse.

My grandmother was not any other woman. She was a mountain made of pristine water. She was her own waterfall and…