Their God is angry and unkind because they made him in their image. - Roxane Gay

To change the world, we need to face what has become of it. To heal from a trauma, we need to understand the extent of it.

With my tattoos, I get to say, these are choices I make for my body, with full-throated consent. This is how I mark myself. This is how I take my body back.

Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.