Author Archives: Emma Brachtenbach

I do not know this place. Every telling of history tastes an awful lot like past-tense with the qualifying pre-tense: “was, were, no longer theirs, stolen” with the underlying tone of a little more than dishonest. I do not know … Continue reading →

Growing up, my mothers always stressed that Christopher Columbus and other explorers and colonizers in no way discovered the land we know as the Americas, nor do they deserve celebration for the decimation of cultures and people. The curriculum that … Continue reading →

For as long as I can remember, my mothers and I would hike a trail that our close clan of women had named The Womb. By the time I could comprehend the significance of naming a place in nature The … Continue reading →