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Right??? Take me for example, I’m an unmarried mother and even though I gave birth a whole 200 years after this time period, I identified with Marina on her unplanned, “illegitimate” pregnancy and I feel like so much depth was missed in her storyline because they waltzed (pun intended) around race where they could have tied in how her being a Black woman made her pregnancy even more damning. And yes! It seems very weird in a story rooted in social complexities and constructs, one of the largest social constructs of all, race, was erased.

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Courtney Cecelia Welch
Courtney Cecelia Welch

Written by Courtney Cecelia Welch

Oakland native, Black womanist, community advocate, commissioner/ board member, Caleb & Cruz’s mom. https://courtneyceceliawelch.me

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