Wherever The Wildflowers Are

July 15, 2020

This piece was created with women leading the good, yet heavy, fight in mind. Yes, we are strong and we get the job done. But why should we be forced to do it alone? Women, especially those who are young and part of the African diaspora all around the globe, are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately; this is due, largely, to systematic barriers implemented by former colonial and current-day capitalist powers.

While this poem was made to uplift and encourage women who have always contributed to bettering the world and are still doing so during this pandemic, it also wants to shed light on reality: the burden of evoking change should not completely rest on the shoulders of women. After all, we all have to live on this planet.

Shainah M. Andrews aka ShaiYaa is a writer born and raised in the United States of America. She has started writing fiction in second grade and hasn’t stopped since. She also writes poetry and nonfiction essays about Blackness through a linguistic lens and healing mental and spiritual wounds. Her work is often an ode to Ghana and the Motherland as a whole. Shainah spent four months studying abroad in Ghana in 2018 which brought her even closer to her ancestral roots; she hopes to return permanently one day. She holds a BA in English and a TESOL certificate from East Carolina University.

Shainah is a pescatarian, meaning that she only eats seafood. She is working towards being fluent in Spanish, and one day in Twi and Swedish. She was pinched by a scorpion while in Ghana. Shainah has flown on a plane more than she has driven a car

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