17. How do Kaaka Nyirasafari and Aine help challenge Mama’s abuse?

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In her speech, “Cinderellaʼs Stepsisters” which appears in her 2019 collection Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, Toni Morrison talks about the ways in which women participate in the violent domination of other women. “Mothers who abuse their children are women,” Morrison writes, “and another woman, not an agency, has to be willing to stay their hand.”

In the context of Everything is Fine Here, how does Kaaka Nyirasafaari stay Mamaʼs hand? How does Aine?