Eberechukwu Peace Akadinma is a student at York University, where she graduated with a degree in Nursing, and is
currently pursuing another in global health. She enjoys reading and spends her free time writing poetry and drinking
coffee. Her work was recently published in The Parlay, Folsom Lake College Literary Magazine. Her favourite writers
are Christina Sharpe, Toni Morrison, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Audre Lorde.
Consider it for a second, she saidExisting at many intersectionswhere your existence is a wound.See it and know it for yourself. How is it that my existence is a wound?my blackness––my body and my flesh––isperceived as gangrene. necrotic.to be scraped off.to reveal a whiter skin.Living in the wake of slavery,for here, to be black means to be invisible.to be closest… Read more →