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In a series of journal entries—some original passages, others revisited and expanded in retrospect—Cherrié Moraga details her
experiences with pregnancy, birth, and the early years of lesbian parenting. With the premature birth of her son—when HIV-related mortality rates were at their highest—Moraga, a new mother at 40 years old, was forced to confront the fragile volatility of life and death; in these recorded dreams and reflections, her terror and resilience are made palpable. The particular challenges of queer parenting prove transformative as Moraga navigates her intersecting roles as mother, child, lover, friend, artist, and activist.
With an updated introduction and other additions, including an afterword by Rafael Angel Moraga, this revised 25th anniversary edition of Waiting in the Wings is thoughtful and emotive, with prose that is sharp and beautifully written, from the voice of a beloved and incomparable writer.

CHERRIÉ MORAGA is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, essayist, and memoirist from Los Angeles, California. She is a coeditor of the avant-garde feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and the author of several books and plays, including A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios, The Last Generation, The Hungry Woman/Heart of the Earth, and others.

RAFAEL ANGEL MORAGA is an actor and writer from Oakland, California. He graduated from UCLA in 2017 with a degree in world arts and cultures and received his master’s in writing for stage and broadcast media from the Royal
Central School of Speech and Drama in 2018.

978-1-64259-830-8 • 140 pages