Here is an excerpt from a piece I wrote about masking as a #neurodivergent #bilingual person.
"We shared things in our second language we did not dare speak in our mother tongues. We had faces to our multilingual selves that simply did not translate when the language changed." 🧵
#theliminalcompass

background is a calm blue sea and sky with Turkey visible in the background. Ixia Beach, Rhodes, South Aegean. Text says: living on an island in the aegean. writing. feeling very sapphic. @theliminalcompass

I remember reading Sappho in the original Greek in college, wondering what it might have felt like to be queer in the land of our ancestors. Five years after repatriating, writing through chronic illness and pain, I find myself thinking about her life even more. #theliminalcompass #herstory #sappho