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“With my second child I was in labour at bingo,” she recounts. “I had contractions. I was among other mothers who were breathing with me. They were all yelling at the caller, ‘She’s gonna have a baby for fuck’s sake! B8!’”

— Burcu Ozdemir, as told by Stephanie Orford
FALL 2009, ISSUE ONE