“You are a good teacher, Arriane” - a message from a former student, a reminder, no, a lifeline… I needed to hear this today.

The spaces to express and share my creativity, even when these spaces are not ideal; they still allow me to take what’s inside my head and show it to others, to make the stories inside my head visible, knowable, real, in a period in my life where I feel almost invisible

A woman taking my side when a bunch of men (always men) keep telling me how many children I should have. Mira, cabron—it’s my body, you don’t know me, shut up, cabron