February 1, 2021
![The book cover of "mourning my inner[blackgirl]child."](https://issi.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_400/public/morning_my_inner_blackgirl_child_cover_r1.png?itok=lOXIdLtO×tamp=1629417986)
In ISSI Graduate Fellow reelaviolette botts-ward's new book, mourning my inner[blackgirl]child, she tells her story of girlhood fragility, ancestral grieving, and embodied remembering. botts-ward's poetry "invites Black women deeper into our healing and centers the little girl within herself who has a sacred word for the world."