13 hours ago5 min read
Part II: 'Celebrating' Empire's 250th With My Family's Refugee Story
I didn't expect to take so long to share this story. I thought I'd done enough processing for it to just flow out of my fingers but even writing Part I was a lot. Add to that the constant interruptions one gets as a mom, who's trying to exist and create while struggling with invisible disabilities, means that nothing seems to get accomplished within a 'normal' span of time. But that's ok, I try to remind myself that manufactured urgency is a colonizer construct. I spent the















