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‘Mother Tongue’ by Yen Ooi

27th October 202027th October 2020  Yen Ooi

Yen Ooi’s poem, ‘Mother Tongue’, is a bold and resolute response to those who project ideas onto a person’s skin and fail to see the individual for who they are, in all their cultural, linguistic and ethnic multiplicity.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Languages, Life in Languages, Migration, Mother Tongue, Motherhood, Multi-lingual, nationality, Poetry, Translation, Yen Ooi
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