Status Updates From When We Speak of Nothing

"'I stayed in Nigeria, I stayed longer because I was being myself. I wasn't a problem. I could see who I was, from the outside. Because other people saw me for who I was, not how hard I had fought to get there.'"

"...thinking about the inevitable, the having to strip so that some stranger in front of you could decide whether you were good enough for them. Or not. Might as well get it over and done with."

"You couldn't always pick up words to flourish the unsayable. It would be a waste. Too much. Sometimes moments had to be allowed to be themselves. To breathe or not, to be bearable or not. You couldn't always change it."

"When we speak of nothing / we don't end the silence."