Forcefully, the police responded to the demonstrations, employing tactics such as pepper spray, rubber bullets, and batons against the protesters. Their heavy-handed approach followed the demonstrators' actions, which included tearing...
From the start, I aimed to involve marginalized women. We traveled four to eight hours along steep, narrow roads to reach them. The rustling of trees and bird songs became our only companions.
One early morning, I recognized a horrible energy shift in my room and felt pain in my back, which left me unable to move. Fear consumed me as I grabbed my cell phone and texted my mom in the next room. I wanted to yell but could not. “Ma, she’s here; there’s something in my room,” I messaged her.
I remember a little girl sobbing as her mother showed me how red and white spots spread from her face to her chest. Another mother lifted her son's clothes, revealing rashes on his body, with open sores on his wrists from scratching. A father stood his daughter on a table to show me the lesions on her calves, which emitted...
The first year felt unbearable. I struggled to see my children as mine, even though the constant pain from breastfeeding reminded me to care for them... Suicidal thoughts overwhelmed me as frustration took over.
We took about three or four more steps when my guide said, “That is it, Elena.” We had crossed the finish line. I did not even realize it at first and asked him if he was sure. It felt surreal. I always imagined crossing the line with my arms raised, celebrating, but after what had happened just meters before, I...
Any movement can cause layers of skin to rub together like sandpaper. Unlike most people who, if they bump into something they develop a bruise, my skin just falls off as if nothing holds it to me. If I fell going up a flight of stairs too fast and lost control, my skin would fall off and likely never heal...
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