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AN INTOXICATING TALE OF LOVE, CHAOS, FEMINISM, AND KITTIES!!! In a world full of entitled creatures who call themselves people, T. Gondii provides a respite in the form of a cardboard box for us childfree cat lovers to puddle together with scraggly hairs intertwined in our purrfect world. -- LISA SCHUCHMANN, Child-free Catlover NINA BEL N ROBINS CAPTURES A SUBJECT THAT IS OFTEN UNEXPLORED IN THE WRITTEN WORLD -- the idea that women will go against their nature and choose not to procreate. Her poetry speaks to the societal pressures, but more poignantly to the idea that it is not so much a lack of desire to be a mother, but a strong mothering instinct that has led her to protect her unborn children from the pain of the mental illness she has endured. -- JENNIFER SCHARITER, Adoptive Mom and Animal Lover NINA BEL N ROBINS TAKES THE SPINSTER CAT LADY TROPE AND UNPACKS IT, revealing someone who loves and hurts deeply, living with a lifetime of mental illness. Slowly she reveals the fear of passing it on to others, while her cats, real or not, roll out of her pen and into our laps offering comfort for our own insecurities. -- RACHEL THERRES, Child-free Catlover

AN INTOXICATING TALE OF LOVE, CHAOS, FEMINISM, AND KITTIES!!! In a world full of entitled creatures who call themselves people, ""T. Gondii"" provides a respite in the form of a cardboard box for us childfree cat lovers to puddle together with scraggly hairs intertwined in our purrfect world. -- LISA SCHUCHMANN, Child-free Catlover NINA BELÉN ROBINS CAPTURES A SUBJECT THAT IS OFTEN UNEXPLORED IN THE WRITTEN WORLD -- the idea that women will go against their nature and choose not to procreate. Her poetry speaks to the societal pressures, but more poignantly to the idea that it is not so much a lack of desire to be a mother, but a strong mothering instinct that has led her to protect her unborn children from the pain of the mental illness she has endured. -- JENNIFER SCHARITER, Adoptive Mom and Animal Lover NINA BELÉN ROBINS TAKES THE SPINSTER CAT LADY TROPE AND UNPACKS IT, revealing someone who loves and hurts deeply, living with a lifetime of mental illness. Slowly she reveals the fear of passing it on to others, while her cats, real or not, roll out of her pen and into our laps offering comfort for our own insecurities. -- RACHEL THERRES, Child-free Catlover

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Nina Belén Robins is a three-time National Slam Poet, and author of the books of poetry, ""Supermarket Diaries"" and ""A Bed With My Name On It."" She spent much of her life in various institutions, but has finally broken free and lives with her husband and cats, working in the bakery department of a supermarket. She writes whenever possible, and wants to help normalize and destigmatize mental illness as best she can.

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