How my family's body-shaming led me to codependency issues and a suicide attempt.

Allowing the wrong person into the inner chambers of your heart is dangerous. Probably the most dangerous thing one can ever do.

“You can't be hesitant about who you are.” - Viola Davis 

What is your presumption? When you gaze at my ebony cheeks, and twist your nose in disgust?

The short story of a woman remembering herself by re-identifying with her body