At Longreads, Jennifer Hope Choi traces a line between a birthmark, a family history, and an ethnology. For VIDA, Mirene Arsanios reflects on language, translation, and the power that an…
I stared up at him, at his new muscular legs, his blossoming body, his trunks, his glory, in awe. I waited as long as I could, pretending to turn the two options over in my head, before saying, “Suicide.”