Where it Rains in Color Mental Health Twelve-year-old Monica Garcia has arrived

Twelve-year-old Monica Garcia has arrived in NYC with her grandmother and a few suitcases to live her dream on Broadway

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Bearing witness to their father’s violence and their mother’s worsening illness

a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about

Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs

Where it Rains in Color Mental Health Twelve-year-old Monica Garcia has arrivedLileala has just been named the Rare Indigo beauty among beauties and is about to embrace her stardom, until something threatens to change her whole lifestyle and turn the planet of Swazembi upside down. Colonized by the descendants of Earths West African Dogon Tribe, the planet of Swazembi is a blazing, color rich utopia and famous vacation center of the galaxy. No one is used to serious trouble in this idyllic, peace loving world, least of all the