The Group Chat Where We All Pretend We’re Okay

By Multiple Voices, From Everywhere and Nowhere There’s a group chat on my phone —we called it “Diaspora Things” at first.Now it’s just hearts, flags, inside jokes, and long silences. It’s where we drop memes at midnight,say “this UK weather ehn” when we do not know how to say “I’m not coping.” It’s the group […]

Dating With Papers Pending

By @anesuchikwava28 –  He said, “Tell me something real about you.” And I paused — not because I didn’t have something real to say, but because I was wondering how real he was ready for. How do you explain that you are falling in like, while also quietly panicking about your visa status? That your […]

I Am the Family Bank

By @kwamemensah34 There is a certain silence I sit with every month.It comes just after I open my banking app.Just before I send money back home. It is not bitterness.It is not resentment.It is just… silence. Like a breath I forgot I was holding. Because I am the family bank.And the bank must always open. […]