Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood

At age 40, Chicana writer and activist Cherrie Moraga decided she wanted to have a child. Waiting in the Wings comprises diary entries made during her pregnancy and the first difficult years of her son's life, as well as retrospective essays on motherhood, partnership, men and woman, and families. Moraga's writing is a rich, fluid mix of English and Spanish that explores the personal, social, and spiritual consequences of lesbian motherhood.