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when we were new
such formal words
in your email
please, you wrote
for myself and my daughters
can I call you Mum
like our friend Mr Friday?
In January 2023, an Afghan man – a long-term refugee living in Australia – walks into the home of two older women in Adelaide. What begins as a simple request for help evolves into a year-long journey of connection, resilience, and unexpected friendship. Through the story of Laila, a single mother with five daughters, and her growing relationship with the author, this work explores the power of human connection across seemingly insurmountable divides of language, culture, age, sexuality, and faith. Laila and her daughters now reside in Australia.
3 MARCH 2026 | ISBN 9781922964328 | Paperback | 152 mm x 229mm | 104 pages
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1. Terf Island by Fiona McAnena (2025)
2. Transsexual Transgender Transhuman by Jennifer Bilek (2024)
3. Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines by Judy Atkinson (2002)
4. Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (2004)
5. Invisible Women of Prehistory Judy Foster (2013)
6. Grace & Marigold by Mira Robertson (2024)
7. “He Chose Porn Over Me” edited by Melinda Tankard Reist (2022)
8. Doublethink by Janice G Raymond (2021)
9. The End of Patriarchy by Robert Jensen (2017)
10. Not Sacred, Not Squaws by Cherry Smiley (2023)
11. The Leaves by Jacqueline Rule (2024)
12. Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers by Laura Lecuona (2024)
13. The Women’s Pool edited by Lynne Spender (2021)
14. Flying with Paper Wings (new edition) by Sandy Jeffs (2024)
15. Man Against Being by aurora linnea (2024)
16. Detransition: Beyond Before and After by Max Robinson (2021)
17. Greek, Actually by Penny Mackieson (2023)
18. Lesbian by Susan Hawthorne (2024)
19. Shattered Motherhood by Donna F Johnson (2025)
20. Minoan Footsteps by Coleen Clare (2025)
updated January 2026
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#WeStandWithUshaAkella
Men’s rights are alive and well in India.
We have been subject to a mass outpouring from Men’s Rights Activists who have targeted Usha Akella’s book I Will Not Bear You Sons and placing one star reviews on the Amazon India website and other sites in protest of its publication.
MRAs have taken exception to a line quoted in online book reviews (regarding aborting male fetuses) and have not looked at the poem in its full context. If they had looked at the context, it is the speaking character answering her tyrannical father-in-law who wants the speaker to have only sons.
Usha’s poetry is brave and brilliant. We stand behind this book and trust you will too.