Poet Felispeaks: ‘Sometimes I feel like a 60-year-old woman on the inside – other times, a 14-year-old boy’

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Felicia Olusanya, aka Felispeaks. Photo: Davey Sexton

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Nigergian-Irish poet, performer and playwright Felicia Olusanya grew up in Co Longford, and her poem, For Our Mothers, is on the Leaving Cert English curriculum. She lives between Brussels and Dublin.

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