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In Her Arms
Love and Legacy of Black Mothers and Duaghters
Demeter Press
Published on 1. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-77258-551-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Her Arms is a powerful collection of nonfiction stories, essays, and poems that center the intimate, complex relationships between Black women and their mothers, grandmothers, and daughters. Through deeply personal reflections, this anthology reveals the beauty, tension, and transformation within these bonds?each shaped by the intersections of love, legacy, and survival. The contributors, Black women from diverse backgrounds, explore how they have been mothered and how they mother, often while navigating the clash between Western cultural norms and traditional African or Caribbean parenting values. The collection offers raw and tender portraits of Black girlhood and womanhood, threading together themes of joy, loss, resilience, resistance, and generational wisdom. At its heart, In Her Arms honors the layered truths of Black maternal relationships and the enduring power they hold in shaping identity, healing generational wounds, and passing on strength.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (mass)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77258-551-3 (9781772585513)
Persons
Eboni-Rai Mullings is a writer and editor raised primarily in Southern Ontario. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), her writing focuses on her experiences as a Black child and youth in white spaces and the personal evolution that took place as she moved to a culturally and racially diverse city. She hopes to affirm and uplift future generations of young Black readers by writing Afrocentric fiction that reflects and celebrates their identities. Olasumbo Adelakun is an award-winning educator, author, and consultant whose work lies at the intersection of leadership, policy, and public health. She holds a doctorate in Leadership and Policy; her work is rooted in purpose. Her book ?You Are Enough: Defying Expectations and Thriving Beyond Skin Tone Bias? explores the global public health crisis of skin bleaching. It also celebrates 54 beautiful, and accomplished women. Their stories promote the power of embracing one's natural identity. Delores V. Mullings is a member of a large extended family, mother of two living Black queens, sister, friend, second daughter and caregiver of Maddah Mullings, her original feminist. She is an aspiring poet, consultant, speaker, educator and mentor. Delores is a Professor of Social Work, Memorial University's inaugural Vice Provost Equity Diversity Inclusion and Anti-Racism, and the only Black woman senior administrator. Her research includes human rights, racial justice, Africentricism, Black elders and migration.