I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.