Argentinian Sculptor Lola Mora working on her fountain The Nereids (1902) Mora’s work, like Alfonsina provoked the scorn and judgement of Argentina’s society at the time. The Nereids and its background story is part of my WIP memoir #DaughtersoftheCurrent
Trigger warning: Suicide. “The Guadalquivir” from #DaughtersoftheCurrent My body feels every increase in temperature as if tightening a tourniquet around my throat. As we are packing for our return to Madrid, I blurt out “I want to die.” For a second, I think of jumping into the Guadalquivir.
Juana is passenger number 72806, and travels in the 1st. class carriage of Ferrocarril del Sud. As a piece meal worker, she would probably load the packages of embroidered baby clothes herself that way avoiding the tip for the porters that would eat into her wages. #DaughtersoftheCurrent
Congratulations, my dear Bianca, on successfully defending your doctoral thesis! Dr. Bianca M Sacchi is in the house. 🎉🥂 Your great grandmother —a maid and embroiderer—would have been so proud! #DaughtersoftheCurrent #WomeninSTEM
There is nothing like reading from your WIP to that friend who has witnessed your many incarnations as art educator, poet (Thank You for publishing my debut chapbook) publisher, and cnf author. #AdrianaOnita, loved sharing our words today. #DaughtersoftheCurrent #friendship #poetry #cnf #summer #yeg
As a seven year old I was obsessed by her drowning in the waters of Mar del Plata because of a song that glorified her suicide as a trip down the ocean, an underwater playground. In 2024 I confronted that childhood illusion, walking Alfonsina’s final steps. #DaughtersoftheCurrent
It is not just the excitement of receiving the envelope-chapbooks from our collaboration with #Mari-LouRowley #DeborahBarnett and her #FrenchLetterSociety, it is the surprise at the connection between this project and my memoir #DaughtersoftheCurrent I have limited edition copies available.
Each of these verses are the chapter headings of my memoir #DaughtersoftheCurrent. Translation mine.
The song that started my obsession with #AlfonsinaStorni, “Alfonsina y el mar, composed by Félix Luna and Ariel Ramírez, in the voice of Mercedes Sosa, as I heard it for the first time at 5 years of age. #DaughtersoftheCurrent m.youtube.com/watch?v=eU1H...
