Category: Grief, Love & The Body
There are moments in life when everything within you appears to stop. Not because you’ve given up. Not because you’ve become lazy. But because your body quietly decides it can’t carry any more. After my ADHD diagnosis, I disappear. Not because the world stops.Because I stop. I reach a point where there’s so much to…
Yesterday I was so happy and relaxed. Lying in the bath, music playing, talking to myself the way I do when no one’s watching. And then it hit — the way memories do when your body finally feels safe enough to let them surface. The moment he told me it was over. Not the clean…
Freeform I used to think my research was about ancestry. Now I understand it has always been about unmasking. The core of any research idea I’ve ever had has always been about one thing: understanding myself. Where I’m from. What I’m made of. How I grow. January 2025 I started my loc journey. I loved…
My mom is pivotal to BLACKBUTTERFLY. She’s the reason I have such a deep connection to butterflies at all. The grief and the messages she sends me confirm that again and again. This piece felt like a launch point. A rebirth. My intention was simple, or at least I thought it was. I wanted to…