‘At Least You’re Young Enough to Start Again’: What Not to Say to a Friend Getting Divorced at Thirty
Loving a Person Publicly: Queer Paranoia from The Middle East to the West
Moving abroad to the West, I found myself struggling with any public display of affection from hand-holding to feeding my partner a bite of my food across the table. It made me paranoid. ‘What if someone who knows my parents sees us?’ I would often think to myself obsessively, looking over my shoulder. This made it hard to fully experience my partner…
Travel, Communication and Commitment: A Conversation With My Partner About Our Binational Relationship
Having met in post-Brexit times, we don’t have the EU to fall back on for easy permits and open borders. This fact makes living in the same place that much harder for us now that we’ve decided to stay in the UK for the foreseeable future. The bureaucratic hurdles are intimidating. And expensive. Plus, it’s a completely new political and financial system that I’m not yet familiar with…