Hello Wanderer, I’m glad you ended up here….

This space is for those of us with questions.

Questions of belonging, (up)rootedness, ancestors, and descendants.

Questions of language and culture. Of connection to a country and connection to the land.

Questions of what has been forgotten and what is still to be discovered.

Questions of where we have come from, and where we’re going.

Though I don’t have answers, here is where I wade, knee-deep, in my wondering. I invite you to splash around with me.

"Stingingly moving writing. From an acutely feminine perspective - in all the everythingness that female means. Brilliant."

Vanessa Edwards - Practically Fabulous

About Me

Illustration by the wonderful Sumaya Asvat

I’m Rahma Dutton; a writer, storyteller, facilitator, and mother.

My writing has been published by Future Females, Hikaayat, and Amaliah.

My storytelling has been featured on the Southern Rights & Wrongs Podcast, on South African national radio station SAfm, and in Fairlady Magazine.

I live in the middle of nowhere in Northern Italy with my husband Muhammad, my daughter Nabila, and my son Ayyub.

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Mixed-race woman, in a mixed-race marriage, raising mixed-up kids and searching for home. Currently attempting to breathe new life into some land and a house in rural Italy.