Description body of rooms is a reckoning. a conversation with myself and the parts of me i find reflected in the eyes, the pain, the secrets and the lives of all the womyn that i am drawn to and love. i invite you into these rooms/this book, from which i speak as a black warrior womon lesbian survivor of incest rape slavery silence ignorance & apathy body of rooms is a scream in resistance to the kind of lives gurls & womyn like me have been living. compartmentalized. quiet. shameful. separated and split apart, i wish to spill out into the center of myself with no form & every definition. strong. certain. unapologetic. body of rooms is my reaching toward exactly that. e. nina jau
