dislocated diasporic identities: A Poem by Dija for Lesbian Visibility Week 2024

It is always easier to count backwards from the end thanforward from the beginning. Easier to orient yourself in yourown countdown than history’s fickle hands of time. Forget themassacred family they had to leave behind, the lips crackeddry with starvation and every heaving breath tasting likeblood. You’re not concerned with the women that came beforeyou […]