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It is time.
It is time to free our voice.
To speak is a revolution.
For too long, through the most intimate acts of erasure, women have been silenced. Now, women everywhere are breaking through the limits placed on us by family, society, and tradition. To find our voices. To make space for ourselves in this world. Now is the moment to reclaim what was once lost, stolen, forsaken, or abandoned.
I Am Yours is about my fight to protect and free my voice from those who have sought to silence me, for the sake of creating a world where all voices are welcome and respected. Because the voice, without intimacy, will atrophy. We're in this together. You are mine, and I am yours.
Reema Zaman is an award-winning author, speaker, and teacher. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Narratively, The Rumpus, B*tch, Magazine, VIDA, SHAPE, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Zaman was selected as the 2018 Oregon Literary Arts' Writer of Color Fellow and serves as serve as Ambassador and Mentor for Girls Inc., Pacific Northwest. In Spring 2019, Zaman and NY Times bestselling writer Lidia Yuknavitch will kick off the first of their annual panel and reading series, "Women, Power, and Writing: Authoring a New Anthem," co-hosted by Literary Arts and Corporeal Writing Center. Born in Bangladesh, raised in Thailand, and presently residing in Portland, Oregon, she holds a double B.A. in gender studies and theater from Skidmore College.
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"Powerfully vulnerable and eloquent, Zaman's voice is a fire--full-throated, wide-open, and roaring." --Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers, Foreword Reviews
"Reema Zaman's keenly-felt, lyrically-written and artfully structured memoir, I Am Yours, joins a rare group of books that can lay claim to being 'transformative'.... You feel empowered and awed by her strength; in full respect, all you want to do is wish her the limelight. Zaman has arrived." --Chaya Bhuvaneswar, author of White Dancing Elephants
"Zaman archives a personal journey that's intimate and attuned to a wider cultural moment. A staggering work filled with presence, I Am Yours provides a profound explanation of love, delivered as an act of witness. Powerfully vulnerable and eloquent, Zaman's voice is a fire--full-throated, wide-open, and roaring." --Foreword Reviews, starred review
"Reema Zaman's writing is a revelation and a revolution for women everywhere. Her lyrical prose introduces you to a world that every woman has lived in at some point in her life: one of doubt, and fear, and relentless questioning of yourself and everything you know, and then breaks it all open to create new possibilities and hope, firmly grounded in resilience. " --Megan Kovacs, Director of Community Relations, Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest
"Reema teaches us a new way to think about self-love and self-care....She teaches us that something magical--perhaps revolutionary--happens when we engage in dialogue with ourselves: we close the hyphen between the self and something good." --Julie Moon, The Rumpus
"The lasting grace of I Am Yours resides in Zaman's exquisite and lyrical voice, at once searing and tender, that bravely seeks to portray the timeless complexities of the female condition and speak truth to power." --Ms.Magazine
"There is an unwavering confidence to Zaman's prose. A pulse point, that calls to mind unflinching memorists that precede her. Melissa Febos and Cheryl Strayed." --Chicago Review of Books
"A fabulous trajectory of powerful transformation." --Forbes
"Zaman's lines of love to her readers are urgent, unhurried, generous, and, yes, uniquely deserving of the appellation gorgeous." --The New York Journal of Books
"Reema Zaman reveals a new way to write memoir--one that speaks back to trauma in her revolutionary style. I Am Yours has proved an essential guidebook for authors who wish to harness their internal witnesses and speak compassionately to themselves throughout the writing process." --Brevity Magazine blog review
"When I heard Reema Zaman speak at a reading soon after the 2016 election, I thought, This is the soundtrack of a modern resistance." --Guernica Magazine
"A healing book that lifts you up. One woman's testimony and heart on the page. Reema Zaman's grace is staggering and true. What a gift." --Terese Mailhot, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries
"This book is a powerful portrait of Reema Zaman and her pursuit of empowering herself and others to heal from adversity and reclaim their own voice and bodies for themselves. Zaman's resilience is undeniable, and her poetic and honest voice add to a deeply moving and unforgettable memoir." --Nadya Okamoto, author of PERIOD: A Menstrual Movement, Founder of PERIOD
"Public speaker Zaman debuts with the powerful account of how she grew from being a voiceless girl to a woman with a confident 'roar'... This lovely work of hope and resilience will resonate with women struggling to find their voice and place in the world." --Publishers Weekly
"Zaman's debut memoir is radical self- and other-love, claimed and gathered through shining language, hard-won and thoughtful. It's poetry and social deconstruction and revolution - a book to be kept close at hand, a nightstand book lit from within by the audacity to cherish the Self, independent and whole." --Jenny Forrester, author of Narrow River, Wide Sky