{"id":525,"date":"2025-05-17T01:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daughteroftheleopard.com\/?page_id=525"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:46:16","slug":"free-chapter-the-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daughteroftheleopard.com\/?page_id=525","title":{"rendered":"Free chapter: “The Bicycle”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In conjunction with US National Bike Month<\/a> (May) we’re sharing this chapter for everyone to enjoy. This chapter is one of the few in the book suitable for all ages of readers<\/em> (in our view). We’ll keep it up through June 6, the end of the week containing June 3, World Bicycle Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bicycles are among the things that were completely taboo for Samburu girls when Monique was growing up. She knew this on an instinctual level. But when she was 4 or 5 years old, a neighbor Maasai girl–an ambassador’s daughter–moved in next door to Monique’s farmhouse, and challenged all of her learned assumptions about Maa-speaking girls, freedom, and bikes. Read how asking Papa for her own bike went for Monique!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This chapter is one we commonly read in our presentations. We’re happy to make the PDF available for classroom use: if you’re an educator, reach out via the contact form to request one! It provides rich grounds for thought and discussion: about wanting, family, loyalty, love, and agency\/revenge; and about class, cultural expectations, and gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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