Whose bodies deserve to be seen?

Whose bodies deserve to be seen?

I, in all accounts, consider myself an empowered woman. I once stood in the middle of a friend’s apartment in Bangkok and yelled “I will not be told how to live by anyone. I reject any community that tries to subscribe to me  rules about how I should ‘be’. I will...
World AIDS DAY

World AIDS DAY

It has been exactly 20 years since my mother died of HIV/AIDS. I was eighteen years old when died, she was thirty six. At thirty seven now, I can’t stop thinking about how young my mother was when she lost her life to HIV/AIDS. In 2002, when my mother died, the...
In The Darkness

In The Darkness

I shared a bed with my grandparents until I was eight years old. My grandfather died and only my grandmother and I shared a bed. I slept with my grandmother until I was thirteen years old! This means that my grandparents had to teach me how to be okay with the...