Mercy Akuot: Artist, Activist. South Sudanese artist Mercy Akuot uses her music to tell stories from her own life and to make demands for a better life for women and girls. As a survivor of forced marriage when she was only 15 years old, Mercy first told her story publicly at TEDx Kakuma Camp in 2018. Since then Mercy has recorded an album with two other talented young women in the camp. The album is called Bado Mapema (It’s Still Early). On the title track each
✿ Recommended Book. Loba by Diane di Prima. Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance "However
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