Kineen Mafa - Becoming Purple: My Personal Bible of Recollecting

2023, English, Kineen Mafa,

Full title: "Becoming Purple: My Personal Bible of Recollecting Reflections" by Kineen Mafa.

"This book is a written testimony of our experiences as a Negro aborigine, born in Louisiana 45 years ago. It is a record of some of the many challenges we have endured because we could not deny our connection to our foremothers in a patriarchal binary society. It is also a record of some of our happiest moments. The book is not fiction it’s based on our life. It is a mixture of all things us.

It’s a collection of original images, stories, poems, and letters. It is an outpouring of ourselves. The stories told in this book have impacted and shaped our being on this plain. It is a private love letter made public. Wise people know love isn’t always pretty! This book is meant to aid in fostering conversations and dialogue that help us to transcend stigmas associated with gender, sex, race, disease, mental illness, addiction, sex work, and human sexuality. This book is about our journey to embracing all of ourselves both chaos and order, masculine and feminine, the bitter and sweet."

"We are Kineen Mafa which is our artist name, our sovereign name, and free name. Kineen Mafa means King, Queen, Mamma, and Father. It is about both guiding and serving. The book is an act of guiding and serving. We are serving the reader our truth praying it guides others in their decision-making, allowing them to learn from our perceivable missteps and well as our successes. What makes this book interesting is that the reader gets to time travel often, as we experience many flashbacks in the book because of the author’s unique style of storytelling. The author who actually uses the pronouns they, them and she decided only to use they, them, us, and we, pronouns to share this collection of short stories. The hope is that everyone who reads this book will be able to connect with the main character no matter their sex or gender.

This book is creative, raw, wisdom-filled, transparent, informative, and honest. There are no chapters. The book is divided into 14 RRs. These are what the author calls Recollecting Reflections. This book is nearly a half a century worth of growth and self-awareness. Truly beings like ourselves didn’t receive much airtime in the Holy Bible so we decided to write our own. This is our personal Bible and now it’s available to all of you as well."

Available via writersrepublic.com

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