A Mask for Survival
This insomnia and overthinking were nothing unusual for me. The nervous system does not wait for us to reach adulthood before it starts warning us that something is wrong, or that there may be danger.
Author: Yasmine Chaitou
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Melanin
A whole patriarchal system had produced this. It created standards of beauty and placed women at their mercy, making them spend more and more in order to fit them.
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Living Scars
Many years passed before I understood that this fear had not appeared inside me from nowhere. Something happened on that distant day, a day whose details my mind has mostly erased. Something that left scars on my body and my spirit and never truly left me.
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Geography of the Body
Five years of prison for my body. Deprivation of everything, movement, and freedom. Why? This is the price of politics in my country. Whom do I consult, complain to, scream to, or question? God.
