mental health – honey gaze

Communion

At four, I knelt in the garden
beside my grandmother, hands full
of seed, as she covered them one
by one with dark, loamy soil. This
is how I learned devotion.

Home-Grown Serotonin

This year I did something I never thought I’d do: I went off my medication for my depression and anxiety…

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi: Book Review

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi is a queer coming-of-age novel like no other, exploring trauma and its aftermath within an earthly body full of gods. The story centers on a young Nigerian girl named Ada, but is narrated largely by the Ogbanje—a swarm of Igbo spirits that come from the womb of the python deity AlaContinue reading “Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi: Book Review”