Persephone’s Children: 7

      Another excerpt from Persephone’s Children, @DundurnPress, publishers.   U is for uterus, uteri; also, for uterine fibroids. Benign growths that range in size from microscopic seeds to peas, to fists, to cantaloupes, to pumpkins. Black...

Persephone’s Children:6

H is for hypodescent. Hypodescent: the assignment of “mixed-race” children to the sub- ordinate group by the dominant culture. Hyperdescent: the assignment of “mixed-race” children to the more-advantaged group by the dominant culture. Hit and miss: whether you’re...