
Babygirls
Mommy doesn’t tell her she’s seeded first in a dying race.
Jade Lozada is a class of 2020 Girls Write Now mentee based in New York, NY.
Mommy doesn’t tell her she’s seeded first in a dying race.
I first joined the New York City Climate Strike Coalition in July 2019. In the company of such impassioned, optimistic youth activists, I quickly realized that the climate crisis is not about numbers. It is a human story, with a human solution.
This is an alternate ending to Jane Eyre, in which Bertha, the Caribbean outsider and “madwoman” who was forced to marry Mr. Rochester, is humanized, and Jane’s strength is found in resisting Mr. Rochester, not returning to him.