The Growing Up Anthologies & the Diversity of Being “Brown”
about 18 months ago (10/31/2022)
The Growing Up Anthologies & the Diversity of Being “Brown” | ArtsEquator Skip to content In the latest installment of AWARE’s Growing Up anthology, Diana Rahim finds that in an environment where our experience of race and womanhood may be constricted, personal stories can be powerful acts of re-making and re-narrativising. “Words have power and, by extension, so do stories. If they have the power to contain us, perhaps, we can also tell stories that liberate us” – Ham, Horror Stories for Little Girls , from Growing Up Perempuan In 2018 Growing Up Perempuan was released, bearing intimate, revealing, powerful stories by Malay and/or Muslim women.